[HN Gopher] German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
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       German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
        
       Author : donutloop
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2023-01-01 19:00 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | Welcome as this is, I think the US is way ahead of most countries
       | because it guarantees whistleblowers a share of the resulting
       | fines etc.
        
         | yieldcrv wrote:
         | I only know of this in securities violations and maybe one
         | aspect of the medical field? Can you elaborate most? Most
         | employees and stakeholders are just lucky if they aren't
         | ostracized from their field forever.
        
           | Nasrudith wrote:
           | All I can contribute is that there is also a tax evasion/tax
           | fraud bounty with the IRS.
        
         | hutzlibu wrote:
         | This is news to me, are there famous examples?
         | 
         | Otherwise I am not sure, if money is the solution to
         | everything, as it could create incentive to create problems or
         | make them worse, only to eventually receive a bigger part of
         | the fines.
        
       | sschueller wrote:
       | "However, the original responsibility for following up and
       | remedying the identified violation remains with the respective
       | company."
       | 
       | I don't see how this works if it is usually companies that are
       | corrupt to the top that have stuff that the public should know.
       | 
       | Just look at Boeing, there were countless internal issues raised
       | about the corner cutting and it was just ignored over and over.
       | 
       | Won't this also allow a company to internally fix the issues and
       | then sweep it under the rug?
        
         | fsw wrote:
         | I don't think that's very clear in the article. The law allows
         | companies to provide incentives for internal reports but the
         | employee/reporter is the one who can chose to do an internal
         | and an external report.
         | 
         | > Personen, die beabsichtigen, Informationen uber einen
         | Verstoss zu melden, konnen wahlen, ob sie sich an eine interne
         | Meldestelle (SS 12) oder eine externe Meldestelle (SSSS 19 bis
         | 24) wenden. Wenn einem intern gemeldeten Verstoss nicht
         | abgeholfen wurde, bleibt es der hinweisgebenden Person
         | unbenommen, sich an eine externe Meldestelle zu wenden.
         | 
         | DeepL translation:
         | 
         | > Persons intending to report information about a violation may
         | choose whether to contact an internal reporting office (Section
         | 12) or an external reporting office (Sections 19 to 24). If an
         | internally reported violation has not been remedied, the
         | whistleblower is free to contact an external reporting office.
        
           | sschueller wrote:
           | Thanks, the article made it sound like you have to use
           | internal channels but the line "konnen wahlen, ob sie sich an
           | eine interne Meldestelle (SS 12) oder eine externe
           | Meldestelle (SSSS 19 bis 24) wenden." indicates you can do
           | either internal or external report.
        
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