Policy Papers - Scope of PIDA and Register of PIDA Claims


Title

Description:

Collective Responsibility at Work

This paper looks at the issues of collective and individual responsibility in the workplace and how law and practice are developing in this area. It considers the effects of the important decision of Majrowski by the law lords this summer on workplace bullying and questions the basis on which the decision was reached. The points it raises have a wider implication for the relationships between the administration, executive, legislature and the courts. The essay also summarises how the whistleblowing law is operating.

Date Published:

November 2006
Free, click here to open.



Title

Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration of the results of an Investigation into a Complaint by Public Concern at Work

Author & Publisher: Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

Description:

A report from the Ombudsman into a complaint made by PCaW about the how the Department for Trade & Industry acted to keep secret claims taken under PIDA.

Date Published:

August 2005
Free, click here to open. Information on PCaW’s efforts to secure public access to details of legal claims taken under PIDA can be found here.



Title


Description:

Public Access to Whistleblowing Claims - Briefing on Employment Tribunals Regulation

A briefing on regulations that keep secret legal applications made under the Public Interest Disclosure Act for Members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.

Date Published:

October 2004
Free, click here to open.



Title

Description:

Submission to the Court of Appeal on the case of Street v Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre

PCaW’s submission on the meaning of ‘good faith’ in PIDA to the Court of Appeal case Mrs. F.M. Street v Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre.

Date Published:

March 2004
Free, click here to open.



Title

Description:

Routes to Resolution

Response to DTI consultation document on employment dispute resolution and Employment Tribunal reform.

Date Published:

September 2001
Free, click here to open.



Title


Description:

Public Interest: open justice, closed government

A summary of PCaW’s discussions with government over access to public records about PIDA claims following the judicial review in April 2000.

Date Published:

October 2000
Free, click here to open.