The clock is ticking! The legal obligation to set up an internal whistleblowing system for every medium-sized company with more than 50 employees comes into force on December 17 – and with it the risk of fines for non-compliance with the implementation obligation.
In our latest article for the“Verbände Report” (Deutsches Verbände Forum – verbaende.com) issue 05/2023, Ignaz Fuesgen, Co-Managing Director of our cooperation partner smartvokat, and Sebastian Keilholz, LL.M., Managing Director of TIGGES DCO, describe how an internal reporting channel can be implemented as an external service in an uncomplicated, cost-efficient and legally compliant manner:
- External service: This allows you to set up an internal whistleblowing system without having to build up your own capacities. All reports are sent to a central mailbox at the service provider, who takes care of confirming receipt and communicating with the whistleblowers. Data protection has top priority!
- Confidentiality and data protection: The entire process is confidential and fully documented. The portal guarantees a highly differentiated authorization concept for the necessary confidentiality.
- Advantages of the external service provider: legal certainty, independence and confidentiality for whistleblowers. No need for additional staff for support, no need to purchase software licenses.
- Role of associations: Associations can play an important intermediary role in informing member companies about the Whistleblower Protection Act, negotiating association conditions or even acting as a central contractual partner.
- Implementation & start: The “activation” of an external service provider is very simple – link our turnkey solution to your own homepage and you are ready to go and meet the legal requirements! ????
Are you interested in such an external complete solution? Feel free to contact our colleagues at TIGGES DCO – the implementation is very simple!
