EU Whistleblower Regime Will Permit Reports to the Press

Company employees who become whistleblowers have been given the right to report legal infractions, including tax evasion, to the media or another outside source instead of using internal reporting processes.

The breakthrough came March 12 as the European Parliament and European Union member nations reached agreement on the bloc’s first-ever whistleblower legal framework.

Large and small companies within the EU will be now required to set up a whistleblower regime that gives employees the right to report legal infractions, including tax evasion.

“Whistleblowers in the EU such as Dankse Banke whistleblower Howard Wilkinson have spent far too long facing ...