Shortcomings in the Workplace Whistleblower Protection in France: What to Expect from the Transposition of Directive 2019/1937?

Gwenola Bargain

doi:10.18778/8220-639-5

Shortcomings in the Workplace Whistleblower Protection in France: What to Expect from the Transposition of Directive 2019/1937?

Gwenola Bargain

University of Tours

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Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia

Series: Law

Pages: 49-69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-639-5.04

Published: 30 December 2021

Categories: Law, Open Access

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At first glance, the French legal framework for whistleblower protection may appear to be particularly well developed. Indeed, since the so-called Sapin II Law, it has offered general criteria to qualify a person as a whistleblower and set procedural and substantive guarantees against possible retaliatory measures. Although advanced, the system is not complete. Its shortcomings are repeatedly mentioned, to the extent that the transposition of European Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 is an opportunity to correct the limitations of the current system. No matter if the criteria may be too restrictive, the procedure too constraining or the protective measures insufficient, there are many elements that need to be modified. However, a question may arise as to whether a unitary treatment of the alert is possible when it does not always serve the same purpose.

Gwenola Bargain, University of Tours

Associate Professor and Director of the Master course in employment law at the University of Tours. She specializes in private law and labour law. Her research is concerned with the relationship between labour law and economics. Her PhD thesis, written at the University of Nantes, examines the economic analysis of labour law.

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Bargain, Gwenola. 2021. “Shortcomings in the Workplace Whistleblower Protection in France: What to Expect from the Transposition of Directive 2019 1937?”. In Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia, edited by Dagmara Skupień, 49-69. Law. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-639-5.04.