Pharma giant Roche has been ordered to pay a whistleblower 8,000 in compensation for penalising him after he made a protected disclosure to the State medicines regulator.
Ruling on statutory complaints by the whistleblower, a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator said it was “concerning” that the penalisation occurred “as there are few private sector organisations which can have a greater impact on public safety and welfare than a pharmaceutical company”.
He wrote it was also “concerning” that the ex-CEO of its Irish subsidiary tried to get staff to “agree on a version of events” with an inspection looming “rather than recognise that [they] had an individual obligation to engage with the regulator truthfully”.
Dr Bruno Seigle-Murandi had claimed he was pressured by the ex-Roche Ireland boss, Pierre-Alain Dellay, to “lie” to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) and take responsibility for an earlier letter in which the firm said there was no need to recall non-compliant marketing literature in which he had identified a patient safety risk.
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