Professionals tasked with GDPR compliance and whistleblower responsibilities at multinational organizations need to prepare for the EU’s hard deadline of December 17, 2021, to implement (transpose) its new whistleblowing directive (Directive 2019/1937) on “protection of persons who report breaches of Union law.”
Littler international lawyers in the US and the EU provided guidance on:
- The requirements for your EU operations
- The ramifications of the new anti-retaliation prohibitions for American companies’ European HR operations
- Implementing and managing global whistleblowing policies and processes
- Reconciling the mandates for both company and government whistleblower hotlines