What happens if an employer retaliates against a whistleblower?
May 19, 2026
Retaliation Against Whistleblowers: The Hidden Risk Companies Can’t Afford When employees speak up about wrongdoing, retaliation remains one of the greatest barriers to ethical reporting. Yet in South Africa, retaliating against a whistleblower is not only unethical but also unlawful. Under the Protected Disclosures Act (PDA), retaliation is classified as an “occupational detriment,” and…
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Best Practices
Three essential insights for your whistleblowing management strategy
February 17, 2019
Strengthen your whistleblowing management strategy in 2019 with the benefit of key insights that light the path for leaders committed to creating workplace cultures of ethics and integrity. In this article we summarize crucial outcomes from three sources published as 2018 was drawing to a close: two research studies and one case that gave…
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Whistleblowing
Why People Don’t Speak Up at Work
August 06, 2018
Why don’t people speak up at work? Someone must have known, but they failed to speak up. If they had, your financial and other losses may have been a lot less. Surely, in an age of hard-earned business reputations being ruined in a day, and in which one large fraud can be the last…
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