Kategorie: Compliance
Whistleblowing and data protection
The Act on Protection of Reporting Persons (“the Act“), will come into force on 1 August 2023, and for obliged entities, this means, among other things, the obligation to introduce an effective internal reporting system by that date, while obliged entities employing between 50 and 250 employees on the effective date of the Act have a longer implementation …
Read moreThe Designated Person in the Context of the Protection of Whistleblowers
The Act on Protection of Reporting Persons (the “Act“) became final and was published in the Collection of Laws on 20 June 2023. The Czech Republic has thus fulfilled its obligation to implement Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 (the “Directive“) into its legal order, although …
Read moreProtection of whistleblowers– new obligations for employers
On 1 August 2023, a new Czech Act on Protection of Reporting Persons will come into force introducing institutional protection for reporting persons (whistleblowers) in line with European legislation. The main novelty is the obligation of obliged entities: to implement an internal reporting system, which will usually enable employees- reporting persons to report in a …
Read moreProtection of whistleblowers – new obligations for employers
The bill on reporting person protection introducing institutional reporting person protection in the Czech Republic, published as Chamber of Deputies document No. 352 (the “Act”), was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on 21 April 2023 and referred to the Senate for consideration. The Act transposes into Czech law the Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the …
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