Whistleblowing in Malta is currently regulated by the Protection of the Whistleblower Act (Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta), which protects whistleblowers from detrimental action...

Promulgated on the 15th of September 2013, the Protection of the Whistleblower Act (Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta) (the "Act")

On 13th December 2023, the European Council and European Parliament have provisionally reached an agreement to establish the Anti-Money Laundering Authority ("AMLA" or "the Authority").

The 'Protection of the Whistleblower Act' (the 'Act') which came into force on the 15th September 2013 seeks to make provision for procedures in terms of which employees

With the publishing of Bill No.249 (‘Bill') which proposes amendments to Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta seeking to transpose the EU Directive (‘Directive') on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law...

The Protection of the Whistleblower Act (hereinafter ‘Act') was enacted with the aim of making it possible for employees to safely raise concerns of wrongdoing within their workplace. The Act safeguards those whistleblowers who ...

EU Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law ("the Directive"), sets out a framework for procedures in terms of which persons who acquired information on breaches...

The Protection of the Whistleblower Act, CAP 527 of the Laws of Malta (the "Whistleblower Act"), which became part of our legislation in 2013, was recently revised with the aim of transposing...

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Monitoring of employees at the workplace is not specifically regulated by Maltese Law. In this respect, one must refer to the Data Protection Act (Chapter 440 of the Laws of Malta)...

Under Maltese law, a whistleblower is an employee who makes a disclosure to a whistleblowing reporting officer or a whistleblowing reports unit. This therefore naturally refers to the reporting of some form of wrongdoing.

Bill No. 249 proposing amendments to the existing Protection of the Whistle-blower Act (Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta) has finally been published.

To date the primary legislation in Malta concerning whistleblowing is the Protection of the Whistleblower Act, Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta (the ‘‘Act'').

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