Whistleblowing regulates how to report misconduct in the workplace and provides for theprotection of those who report it.
Whistleblowing means reporting an offence you have become aware of in the course of your work, whether in the public or private sector.
An offence could be fraud, failure to implement safety regulations, blatantly unlawful behaviour, etc, and the offender could be an employer, a manager, a colleague, or even a customer.
Among the undeniable rights of the worker is the right to self-defence, and this is the purpose of reporting, i.e., to ensure that work is carried out in the safest and most pleasant manner possible.
Italian law introduced, through Article 54-bis of Legislative Decree No. 165 of 2001, the possibility of protection for employees who report wrongdoing in the workplace.
Subsequently, whistleblowing assumed the status of a legal entity with Law No. 190 of 2012, which, however, only regulated the public sector. It was only in 2017, with Act 179, that the private sector was also regulated.
The legislation regulates the ways in which whistleblowing can take place, different in the public and private sector, and governs the measures to protect the reporting party, the so-called whistle-blower.
For the State, the whistle-blower is an important resource to monitor, above all, the proper conduct of work in public interest entities.
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