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Podcast: Ibec Podcasts
Episode: Penalisation
Description: In this episode of KC Connect, Ibec experts Sophie Crosbie and James Cleary discuss the issue of penalisation under various pieces of employment legislation including the Protected Disclosures Acts and the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.The rule against penalisation arise in a wide variety of employment legislation in in addition to specific protection for whistle-blowers and persons raising safety concerns. This places a prohibition on employers from engaging in retaliatory adverse action against an employee for invoking their rights or opposing unlawful acts or giving evidence or taking proceedings in employment law ac...