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This comes after a fifth of employees who expressed concern over their employer’s lack of compliance with COVID-19 regulations were ultimately dismissed. The Government have stated they will be reviewing reforms linked to whistleblowing to “ensure that they remain fit for purpose”. This was announced after Protect, a company which offers confidential whistleblowing advice, reported that a fifth (20 per cent) of employees who did report whistleblowing were dismissed by their employers last year. Over two-thirds (68 per cent) of the issues raised were linked to PPE, a lack of social distancing and failure to observe Government guidelines in the workplace. The report also highlighted that this is a particularly dangerous trend, especially as the number of whistleblowers being dismissed is growing. Between September 2019-March 2020, a fifth of employees were dismissed for whistleblowing (21 per cent) but this has now grown to 26 per cent during the same period a year later. A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy stated that this treatment is “unacceptable” and “no worker should lose their job for whistleblowing”. As such, the Government announced an upgrade to the whistleblowing regime which includes “providing guidance on how workers can make disclosures