Dr Małgorzata Grześków laureate of MINIATURA 7
Dr Małgorzata Grześków is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Labor Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław. Her research interests include the law of individual employment relations and corporate relations. Recently, her research activities have focused on the regulation of whistleblower protection in the workplace.
Dr Małgorzata Grześków’s research project entitled “Protection of whistleblowers in the workplace. Portuguese model of implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/1937” has just received funding from the Miniatura 7 competition.
In Poland (despite the expiration of the deadline for implementation), work is still underway on the final form of the law implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2019 on the protection of whistleblowers (i.e., the Whistleblowers Directive) into Polish law. In early August of this year, the ninth version of the draft of our internal regulation was posted on the website of the Government Legislation Center [Rządowe Centrum Legislacji]. During the legislative work, further problems arose (and continue to arise), including, among others, the catalog of entities that can be considered whistleblowers, the permissibility and advisability of submitting anonymous reports, or the possibility of introducing a reward system for whistleblowers.
As an act of EU law, the directive is binding on each member state as to the outcome, but leaves to national authorities the choice of form and means. The implementation of the whistleblower directive is a major challenge for all countries, especially given the short history of whistleblowers in Europe. The project qualified for funding involves a trip to Portugal, a country that was one of the first to implement the provisions of the EU directive into national law. Benefiting from the experience of other European countries is extremely important for the construction, analysis and criticism of the law. The trip to Portugal is intended to be only the beginning to undertake further work on the study and analysis of various models of implementation of the Whistleblower Directive developed by individual member states.
