Sweden: law on whistle-blowers (Visselblåsare) is finally adopted

On 08 June Sweden’s parliament adopted a draft law that was initially presented in May 2014 and that aims to bolster protection for whistle-blowers. The law is set to come into force on 01 January 2017.
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Changes. A pretty good idea in itself: strengthen safety levels of whistle-blowers by voting in a law specifically treating private life and public property in a bid to protect those who could be affected by any whistleblowing. In fact several legislative provisions already exist, notably within the law on Employee Protection, however the government was looking to approve a law specifically addressing whistle blowing. This is why it presented an initial draft though it didn’t progress because t

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