How to Improve the Protection of Employees-Whistleblowers in Slovenia by Implementing the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive

Darja Senčur Peček

doi:10.18778/8220-639-5

How to Improve the Protection of Employees-Whistleblowers in Slovenia by Implementing the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive

Darja Senčur Peček

University of Maribor, Faculty of Law

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

Series: Law

Pages: 71-97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-639-5.05

Published: 30 December 2021

Categories: Law, Open Access

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Workers and public employees reporting unlawful or harmful conduct in Slovenia are granted special protection only by specific acts, whereas they also enjoy general labour-law protection as employees. The paper addresses the state of their protection as provided by the applicable sectoral legislation relating to the prevention of corruption and to reporting of irregularities in banking and financial sectors, as well as by general labour legislation. Based on the analysis of the material and personal scope of the existing protection, the regulation of reporting channels, the possibility of public disclosure, the legally defined protective measures, and the institutional framework, the author adopts a position on the possibility to update this protection by proper implementation of the EU Directive 2019/1937.

Darja Senčur Peček, University of Maribor, Faculty of Law

Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor, where she is engaged in teaching labour law and social security law. She is the vice-dean for research and international relations at the Faculty, head of the Labour Law Department and head of the Institute for Employment Relations and Social Security at the Faculty. She is the author or co-author of a number of monographs, including a commentary on the Slovene employment relations act, and the author of many research articles published in legal journals and anthologies. Furthermore, she has been an active participant in many national and international law conferences and research projects. Darja Senčur Peček is a member of the editorial board of some distinguished Slovene law reviews – Pravnik (The Lawyer), Podjetje in delo (Company and Labour) and Delavci in delodajalci (Employees & Employers). In addition, she is the vice-president of the Slovenian Business Law Association.

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Senčur Peček, Darja. 2021. “How to Improve the Protection of Employees-Whistleblowers in Slovenia by Implementing the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive”. In Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia, edited by Dagmara Skupień, 71-97. Law. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-639-5.05.