A Study On The Whistleblower System From The Perspective Of Labor Law

After the “Wal-Mart Dirty Oil Incident” was exposed in 2014,the whistleblowers were immediately retaliated by the company,and all four were fired.There is an urgent requirement for labor laws to provide those whistleblowers who had the similar experience with appropriate protection.China must establish a whistleblower system and make up for the shortcoming of the national regulatory system.The current labor laws have not been able to protect the legitimate labor rights of an employee whistleblower,therefore the author conducts research on the extraterritorial whistleblower system,hoping to draw lessons from the advanced legislative experience that these countries have accumulated in the protection of whistleblowers.First of all,this article will lead to the topic of whistleblower system by introducing two cases that triggered a hot debate in 2014.Then it will elaborate on what the whistleblower system is,what social functions it has,and what conditions it should implement.After that the necessity and difficulty of setting up a whistleblower system in China are obtained.The author has studied the theory and practice of the whistleblower system of the four countries to find out what kinds of solutions the countries have taken in response to these difficulties.It has provided some ideas for the establishment of the whistleblower system in the field of labor laws in China.