Doing the right thing
13 September 2012
Legal column
The Public Interest Disclosure Act protects employees who speak out about fraud or misconduct. This is vital because whistleblowing can be an obligation.
The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 protects individuals who make certain disclosures of information in the public interest from victimisation.
It protects workers who are employees and also people who work or worked for someone to whom they were "introduced or supplied to do that work by a third person" or someone who is engaged to work for a term that is "...