Two EU-27 Member States – Ireland and France – are to adopt new legislation in line with the provisions of EU Directive 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on the protection of whistleblowers. In Ireland, a bill was published on 9 February by Michael McGrath, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and is currently being considered by the Dáil Éireann, Ireland’s lower house of parliament. In France, meanwhile, the Waserman bill was adopted by parliament on 16 February.
This transposition of the EU Directive into Irish and French legislation extends the definition of whistleblower, respectively, under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and the Sapin II Law of 2016. It thereby broadens the scope of protected persons. In a work-related context, information about wrongdoing can be reported internally by employees (past and present), job applicants, shareholders, members of the administrative, management or supervisory body, as well as external and occasional coll
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