Job applicants outside the NHS can’t claim whistleblowing protection – over to Parliament to right this wrong. - Protect - Speak up stop harm

Job applicants outside the NHS can’t claim whistleblowing protection – over to Parliament to right this wrong. - Protect - Speak up stop harm

In a disappointing judgment, the Court of Appeal has said that job applicants are not protected if they blow the whistle, and in doing so has thrown the ball firmly back into Parliament’s court to decide who is, and who is not, a whistleblower. More positively, the Court restated the value of whistleblowing and noted the purpose of the law is “to protect the public interest by ensuring that information about wrongdoing, or threats to health and …