Lack of regulations impeding adaptation of procedures

By 17 December 2021, Member States of the European Union ought to have adopted national laws implementing the directive protecting whistleblowers. The draft Polish law, meanwhile, has not as much as been approved by the Council of Ministers. These delays have especial implications for large enterprises employing at least 250 employees. Such entities will be left with less time to draw up whistleblowing procedures for their employees – in their case, as the draft law would have it, the proposed law will come into force a mere 14 days after its promulgation (employer organisations and large enterprises, including some state-owned ones, have already called for extension of this deadline) […]

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