WIN & other Organisations Sign Protect’s Open Letter Calling for a Legal Duty to Investigate Whistleblowing

Tomorrow on 11 March 2025, the Employment Rights Bill enters the report stage in the UK. Whistleblowing advice organisation Protect has shared their amendment to the Employment Rights Bill which has now been tabled by the Labour MP Alex Sobel. 

Protect’s open letter explains the need to amend the Employment Rights Bill to create a new legal duty for all employers to investigate whistleblowing concerns, and for all major employers to establish internal channels and procedures for reporting and managing whistleblowing reports.

The duty would require all employers to take reasonable steps to investigate whistleblowing disclosures. Whereas the requirement to establish internal reporting channels and procedures would only affect major employers with the resources to handle this, such as those with 50+ employees or an annual business turnover of £10 million plus, ensuring small businesses are not burdened.

The open letter has been signed by The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition, Whistleblowing International Network, Transparency International UK, Spotlight on Corruption, Parrhesia, Professor Robert Barrington of the Centre for the Study of Corruption in the University of Sussex and Protect.

Read Protect's Policy Officer Cicely Fraser's Spotlight on the amendment.