Abstract The Polish act on whistleblower protection limits the material scope of whistleblowing to breaches of law falling within the closed catalogue of fields included in it. Such a solution results in the failure to provide under the terms of this act protection to persons who report other breaches of law, the detection and combating of which is in the public interest, such as in particular criminal offences or misdemeanours which are not comprised within the aforementioned catalogue, violations of human rights in enterprises, as well as acts or omissions which pose a threat to the human life, health or safety. The article presents proposals for changes which aim to eliminate this asymmetry in protection of persons disclosing breaches of law.

The Conference, organised by the Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of European, International and Collective Labour Law, University of Lodz within the Visegrad Grant concerning Workplace Whistleblower Protection in the V4 Countries, France and Slovenia (WhistlePro), took place on 15.06.2021. It aimed to present current regulations in the realm of the whistleblower protection as well as proposals for changes and to disseminate the results of the WhistlePro project. Among the speakers there were scientists, including WhistlePro project experts representing universities from V4 countries, France and Slovenia, representatives of the European Commission, state authorities, social partners, non-governmental organizations and employers. Thus, the content of the conference was very diversified and considered multiple points of view.