You've referred already to the OECD recommendation, but now is the time for some optimism?

I'm happy to say that there has been so much that has happened on the issue of whistleblower protection.

A lot of it was sort of already in the pipeline when we drafted the article, so you'll see references to the EU directive, which has now entered into force on the 17th of December, 2021.

That was the deadline for states to transpose the provisions of the directive.

Uh, it really is a legal revolution in whistleblower protection, but the uptake of transposition in EU member countries is quite slow.

I would say that that's because it is such a legal revolution.

One of the countries that I worked with when I was at the OECD indicated that as part of their process for transposing the directive, they identified upward of 60 laws that had to be amended in order to transpose the directive.

But what advice do you have for corporations?