Censorship and whistleblowing in a workplace: selected issues
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https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6069.97.07Keywords:
employee loyalty, COVID-19 pandemic, whistleblower, whistleblowing, Polish labor law, employees, dismissal, censorshipAbstract
The article will present four cases of abuses against Polish whistleblowers, including the last one from the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this article aims to draw attention to the problem of abuses against whistleblowers in Poland in the context of the employee’s obligation to care for the welfare of the workplace and the integrally related loyalty to the employer. The author used the upcoming implementation of the Directive of the European Parliament and the Council (EU) 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons reporting breaches of EU law as a background for her considerations. The author claims that the legislator in Poland will confront the challenge of redefining the issue of loyalty in labor law and the related freedom of expression of employees.
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