Legalization of Whistle Blowing

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Under whistleblowing can be understood the act of informing the public or authority’s body about a wrongdoing by the worker. For example, a worker can inform about illegal situations, when someone’s health is in danger, there are damage to the environment or the company breaks the law. On the one hand, whistleblowing can be very helpful, because it ends durational wrongdoing that will otherwise continue. It protects the public and colleagues from the risk. Furthermore, whistleblowing help to keep institutions and their officials. From moral and ethical views, the whistleblower gets peace of mind, taking an action to protect the public. But, on the other hand, whistleblowing has some drawbacks. A whistleblower can be marked as traitorous and be discredited in some way. Besides that, colleagues can exact some form of revenge. In small towns, the whistleblower and his family can be suspected in actions to get benefits at others expense. Generally, potential whistleblowers are confronted with difficulties of the choice: interests of company, co-workers and friends or interests of the public. In USA exists National Whistleblowers Center that specializes in support of whistleblowers in the courts and before Congress. Besides that, by U. S. Security and Exchange Commission was established Office of the Whistleblowers whose activities are directed to the cooperation with whistleblowers. The Commission proceeds from the assumption that whistleblowers can help identify possible fraud and other violations, that’s why it provides monetary awards to individuals who come forward with information. At the moment, it’s difficult to imagine existence of such organizations in Belarus. From my point of view, it’s bound with the fact that people fear to be dismissed because of whistleblowing. And probably the legalization of the whistleblowing won’t change it. Belarus people think

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