Do whistleblowers have legal protection?
Almost all workers (save the armed forces, intelligence officers, volunteers and the self-employed) in the United Kingdom are protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA). PIDA provides workers in the UK with a safe alternative to silence. It enables workers to raise concerns about wrongdoing responsibly. PIDA protects them if they raise a concern about wrongdoing internally and, in most cases, with a regulator. It also protects workers who make wider disclosures where there is a valid reason to go wider, and the particular disclosure is reasonable.
