William Fry was recently invited to participate in two webinars hosted by Franklin Paris, along with Cooley LLP, Magnusson, Molitor Avocats a la Cour SARL, Pavia e Ansaldo, Bartolome &Briones, AKD Benelux Lawyers and Atsumi & Sakai Europa Rechtsanwalts-und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH. The webinars discussed the EU Whistleblowing Directive (the Directive) and provided cross-border insights on the transposition of the Directive. Catherine O'Flynn, Nuala Clayton and Rachel Hayes were panellists at 3 of the sessions and their sessions are available to view below. Videos of the full webinars can be accessed below:

Wednesday 8 June (link here)

• Working session 1 - General presentation of the Directive (EU level)
• Working session 2 - The EU directive from a non-EU perspective (views from the US, the UK and Japan)
• Working session 3 - Insight on the basic principles of transposition laws in the EU countries - data protection / privacy aspects

Thursday 9 June (link here)

• Working session 4 - Insight on the basic principles of transposition laws in the EU countries - labour aspects
• Working session 5 - Practical recommendations to set up a whistleblowing system in a compliant way
• Working session 6 - Answers to practical question

As set out in our previous article (available here), Ireland is to transpose the Directive by way of amendments to the existing Irish protected disclosures framework as set out in the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 (the 2022 Bill)....

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