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In the financial sector, in addition to individual employment contracts, working conditions can be subject to various industry related statutes and regulations, collective bargaining agreements and works agreements.

Laws and regulations

As a reaction to the global financial crisis, the participants of the 2008 G20 summit in Washington, including Germany, agreed on the establishment and implementation of global standards of regulation, cross-border supervision and management to avoid conflicts of interest and to create an early warning system to avoid a repetition of the financial crisis.

In response to this resolution, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published principles for sound compensation … Continue Reading

Apart from the well-known Wiki-leaks, recent prominent cases of whistleblowing such as Lux-leaks, the Panama Papers or the case of the German geriatric nurse Brigitte Heinisch, who was dismissed after revealing the ill-treatment of elderly people in a Berlin retirement home, continue to highlight the continued relevance of the topic “whistleblowing”. While this has resulted in an increased public awareness and consequent expectation of global corporate accountability, the subject remains a complex matter of opposing interests: on the one hand, the public interest in ensuring that companies, authorities and organisations comply with the law, and on the other hand, the … Continue Reading

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“What are the latest developments on whistleblowing in the workplace in Germany?”