Moved by
Lord Touhig
22: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—
“Duty on employers to prevent detriment caused by others to workers who have made protected disclosures
(1) The Secretary of State shall make regulations requiring an employer, where a worker has made a protected disclosure under section 43A of the Employment Rights Act 1996, to take reasonable steps to ensure that the worker is not subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by a person other than his employer done on the ground that the worker has made the disclosure.
(2) Regulations under this section—
(a) are to be made by statutory instrument, and
(b) are not to be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.”