Whistleblowing: When are claims in the public interest?

Mayer Brown International LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2017 #183
The Court of Appeal has failed to resolve uncertainty over whether a complaint about a breach of a worker’s own employment contract can amount to a protected disclosure, explain Christopher Fisher and Tanem Taskin ‘To be protected by the whistleblowing legislation, a worker must have made a protected disclosure.’ In Chesterton Global Ltd v Nurmohamed …

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Whistleblowing: What does ‘in the public interest’ mean?

CMS | Employment Law Journal | December 2015/January 2016 #166
Following two recent EAT cases, employers face the renewed prospect of workers receiving whistleblowing protection for disclosing breaches of their own employment contract, warns Sarah Ozanne ‘It is noteworthy that the legislation does not define public interest. Nor does it require that the disclosure be in the public interest, just that the worker has a …

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