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Austrian Parliament Implements EU Directive for Better Protection of Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are to be better protected in Austria in the future. After a delay of more than a year, the Austrian Parliament today passed a new Whistleblower Protection Act and accompanying amendments to the law, thus implementing a corresponding EU directive.
An ÖVP-Green majority voted in favor of a new whistleblower protection law in the National Council of the Austrian Parliament. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
The legislative package aims to protect people who pass on information about legally questionable practices in their professional environment, such as fraud, corruption, health hazards or environmental hazards, from reprisals in the workplace and other negative consequences such as legal proceedings that threaten their existence. For example, terminations, suspensions, salary cuts and…
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