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   Whistle-blowing
   Under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and employee may disclose information about his or her employer's business (where there is wrongdoing by he employer). The employee is then protected against the employer taking action against the employee in revenge.
   Found op http://www.compactlaw.co.uk/legal_glossary/w/whistle_blowing.html
   
   
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   whistle-blowing
   whistle-blowing, exposure of fraud and abuse by an employee. The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created to combat fraud by suppliers to the federal government during the Civil War. Under the act, whistle-blowers can rece...
   Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0852064.html
   
   
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   Whistleblowing
   The disclosure by an employee or professional of genuine concerns about crimes, illegality or negligence, miscarriages of justice, danger to health and safety or the environment, and the cover-up of any of those, whether committed by the employer or a fellow employee. Whistleblowers have legal prote...
   Found op http://society.guardian.co.uk/glossary/page/0,,646470,00.html
   
   
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   Whistleblowing
   This is the act of informing a relevant person in an organisation of instances or services in which patients are at risk.
   Found op http://www.eastlondon.nhs.uk/glossary.html
   
   

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