Employment and Labor Law

Contact: Clarkslegal (Reading, England)

Whilst whistleblowers are protected against detriment and dismissal as a result of blowing the whistle, they often suffer in more subtle ways such as ostracism by their colleagues, harassment and punitive transfers without reason or cause.

Another source of controversy has been the loophole that allows disclosures made in relation to a breach of an employee’s own employment contract to become protected and subsequently the basis of an employment tribunal claim. This was seen as an abuse of the legislation and allowed employees to bring spurious claims in order to circumvent the requirement for sufficient service to bring an unfair dismissal claim.

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