Deciding to become a whistleblower is not an easy thing to do. It can bring years of professional and personal upheaval and the toll it takes on a person’s mental health, their finances and their family is often a heavy one.
This week, the first ever Whistleblowing Awareness Week, organised by not-for-profit group WhistleblowersUK, is taking place in Parliament to address this.
Against a backdrop of whistleblowing in the NHS and calls for a whistleblowing charter within the Metropolitan Police, the week, which includes a Westminster Hall debate today, is an opportunity for MPs, policy-makers and regulators to get on board with proposed legislation to empower whistleblowers to speak out.
The Protection for Whistleblowing Bill was introduced to Parliament in June 2022 to replace the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), which campaigners say doesn’t offer enough protection.
The Covid-19 public inquiry is a historic chance to find out what really happened.
And better protection is needed. Not least if you’re exposing wrongdoing at a major company.
Jonathan Taylor worked for nine years in Monaco as a lawyer for SBM Offshore, a Netherlands multinational selling systems and services to the oil and gas industry. In 2012, he blew the whistle on corruption taking place at the company.
“I revealed payments of over $250m in bribes between 2007 and 2011, paid in order to win contracts,” Taylor told openDemocracy.
Taylor’s discovery resulted...
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