The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has adopted MEP Virginie Rozière’s (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats) report on a draft directive protecting whistleblowers. Parliament has added the EU right to ‘employment, working conditions, workers’ rights, and equal opportunities for men and women at work’ to the legislative scope about which employees can signal violations by their employers and continue retain protection from employer reprisal action.
The proposed legislation* aims especially to guarantee protection and support for workers who signal violations within several domains (ranging from public procurement market right through to food safety, including competition), but it did omit workers’ rights directives (c.f. article No. 10651). The EU Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has altered this and in its report published on 20 November includes ‘employment, working conditions, workers’ rights, and equal opportunities for men and wo
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