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The General Whistleblower Protection Regime, which transposed the Whistleblowing Directive on December 20th 2021, obliges companies with fifty or more employees to have an internal reporting channel through which less correct practices, such as harassment, bullying, racism and even corruption, can be reported. In an opinion article for Advocatus magazine, Marta Duarte, CCA's Partner of the Litigation and Arbitration Area, explains in what ways companies should view this obligation and how they should go about creating this channel.
"The existence of a compliance programme and a whistleblowing channel is a highly recommended practice for companies, as it allows them to control and ensure compliance with good practices. Therefore, although the obligation to have an internal whistleblowing channel is associated with a regime that aims to define rules to avoid acts of retaliation against those who report certain behaviours, this should be seen as a tool that contributes to the adequacy of all companies to the best market practices, even by companies that, under the new law, are not obliged to implement the whistleblowing channel", underlines the CCA Partner.
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