[HN Gopher] German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act ___________________________________________________________________ German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act Author : donutloop Score : 54 points Date : 2023-01-01 19:00 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.bakertilly.de) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bakertilly.de) | LatteLazy wrote: | Welcome as this is, I think the US is way ahead of most countries | because it guarantees whistleblowers a share of the resulting | fines etc. | yieldcrv wrote: | I only know of this in securities violations and maybe one | aspect of the medical field? Can you elaborate most? Most | employees and stakeholders are just lucky if they aren't | ostracized from their field forever. | Nasrudith wrote: | All I can contribute is that there is also a tax evasion/tax | fraud bounty with the IRS. | hutzlibu wrote: | This is news to me, are there famous examples? | | Otherwise I am not sure, if money is the solution to | everything, as it could create incentive to create problems or | make them worse, only to eventually receive a bigger part of | the fines. | sschueller wrote: | "However, the original responsibility for following up and | remedying the identified violation remains with the respective | company." | | I don't see how this works if it is usually companies that are | corrupt to the top that have stuff that the public should know. | | Just look at Boeing, there were countless internal issues raised | about the corner cutting and it was just ignored over and over. | | Won't this also allow a company to internally fix the issues and | then sweep it under the rug? | fsw wrote: | I don't think that's very clear in the article. The law allows | companies to provide incentives for internal reports but the | employee/reporter is the one who can chose to do an internal | and an external report. | | > Personen, die beabsichtigen, Informationen uber einen | Verstoss zu melden, konnen wahlen, ob sie sich an eine interne | Meldestelle (SS 12) oder eine externe Meldestelle (SSSS 19 bis | 24) wenden. Wenn einem intern gemeldeten Verstoss nicht | abgeholfen wurde, bleibt es der hinweisgebenden Person | unbenommen, sich an eine externe Meldestelle zu wenden. | | DeepL translation: | | > Persons intending to report information about a violation may | choose whether to contact an internal reporting office (Section | 12) or an external reporting office (Sections 19 to 24). If an | internally reported violation has not been remedied, the | whistleblower is free to contact an external reporting office. | sschueller wrote: | Thanks, the article made it sound like you have to use | internal channels but the line "konnen wahlen, ob sie sich an | eine interne Meldestelle (SS 12) oder eine externe | Meldestelle (SSSS 19 bis 24) wenden." indicates you can do | either internal or external report. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-01 23:00 UTC)