{"id":7447,"date":"2023-11-16T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.p698116.webspaceconfig.de\/as-of-december-17-the-legal-obligation-to-set-up-an-internal-whistleblower-system-applies-to-companies-with-more-than-50-employees\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:38:00","slug":"as-of-december-17-the-legal-obligation-to-set-up-an-internal-whistleblower-system-applies-to-companies-with-more-than-50-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/as-of-december-17-the-legal-obligation-to-set-up-an-internal-whistleblower-system-applies-to-companies-with-more-than-50-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"As of December 17, the legal obligation to set up an internal whistleblower system applies to companies with more than 50 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; and with it the risk of fines for non-compliance with the implementation obligation. <\/p>\n<p>In our latest article for the<strong>&#8220;Verb\u00e4nde Report<\/strong>&#8221; (Deutsches Verb\u00e4nde Forum &#8211; verbaende.com) issue 05\/2023, <strong>Ignaz Fuesgen<\/strong>, Co-Managing Director of our cooperation partner smartvokat, and <strong>Sebastian Keilholz, LL.M., Managing Director of TIGGES DCO, <\/strong>describe how an internal reporting channel can be implemented as an external service in an uncomplicated, cost-efficient and legally compliant manner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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!  <\/li>\n<li>Confidentiality and data protection: The entire process is confidential and fully documented. The portal guarantees a highly differentiated authorization concept for the necessary confidentiality. <\/li>\n<li>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. <\/li>\n<li>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.  <\/li>\n<li>Implementation &amp; start: The &#8220;activation&#8221; of an external service provider is very simple &#8211; link our turnkey solution to your own homepage and you are ready to go and meet the legal requirements! ???? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are you interested in such an external complete solution? Feel free to contact our colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigges-dco.de\">TIGGES DCO <\/a>&#8211; the implementation is very simple! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/13-Verbaendereport.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Verbaendereport Reporting Office  \" title=\"Verbaendereport Reporting Office  \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock is ticking! The legal obligation to set up an internal whistleblowing system for every medium-sized company with more than 50 employees applies from December 17 &#8211; and with it the risk of fines for non-compliance with the implementation obligation. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-practical-knowledge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}