The Uber files, equivalent to a data dump, has focused the public mind on lobbying – the aggressive tactics and political infiltration of a company to achieve market entry.
There has been less focus on the act of whistleblowing itself and the crisis of trust and confidence it causes for companies when their wrongdoing is exposed. Ireland’s own amended whistleblower legislation was recently signed into law by President Michael D Higgins.
According to sailors’ superstitions, to whistle on a boat will bring you bad luck. It is said that the act of whistling causes the wind to feel threatened, and as such, responds to the whistle by mustering up a fierce and threatening storm. The sound of a whistle onboard will strike fear in the saltiest of sailors.
The same is true for any enterprise exposed to public opprobrium and coverage for wrongful actions they never expected to be held accountable for. The inevitable storm means that crisis management plans are fast activated. They’d better be robust, as fighting for a corporate reputation against an insider with right and rights on his or her side is a huge PR task.
Our own Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 sees significant updates to Ireland’s whistleblower regime. These updates build on the protections offered in 2014 under the Protected Disclosures Act. Now, a wider scope of categories of...
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