Training project for the Whistleblower Act (ISF funding)

Goals and results

The project seeks to ensure that the organisations needing to establish a reporting channel under the Whistleblower Act can better fulfil their statutory obligations, to increase the expertise of the persons processing the reports, and to raise awareness among employees of the Act's content. A further objective is to increase citizens' awareness of reporting procedures and channels.

The project outputs include training, briefings, and training materials to be made available to the public. As part of the project, a section on whistleblower protection has been created for the Ministry of Justice’s anti-corruption website (www.korruptiontorjunta.fi/en/whistleblower-protection). The website will be supplemented during spring 2024.

Summary

The project providing Whistleblower Act (1171/2022) training aims to increase awareness of this Act, which will transpose the Whistleblower Directive (2019/1937/EU) into national legislation, among private and public sector organisations and among employees and citizens. The project will disseminate information through communications and training.

Starting points

This is a significant legislative reform that will affect many parties. The project aims to raise awareness in organisations and among employees and citizens. It is therefore important that practical information on the content of the Act can be disseminated as widely as possible. For this reason, the project’s key actions include comprehensive training and a wide range of communications.

The European Commission will monitor the national implementation of the Whistleblower Directive in all Member States.