Treated badly after raising a concern?

What makes a disclosure protected

Whistleblowing protection applies when you make a “qualifying disclosure”: information that, in your reasonable belief, shows a criminal offence, a breach of a legal obligation, a miscarriage of justice, danger to health and safety, environmental damage, or the deliberate concealment of any of these. You must reasonably believe the disclosure is made in the public interest, and it must be made to an appropriate person, typically your employer, a regulator, or in limited circumstances more widely.

There is no minimum length of service for whistleblowing protection, and no cap applies to some of the remedies available in a successful claim. That makes it one of the strongest protections in employment law, but also one that is frequently misunderstood: raising a personal grievance about your own contract is not usually whistleblowing. We help you work out whether what you raised, and how you raised it, is actually protected.