Sentences with phrase «testified against the whistleblower»

I guess in the actual class action suit — and before I get too far ahead of myself, North Country ostensibly deals with the first class action sexual harassment lawsuit brought against a major Union company — a few of the women actually testified against the whistleblower.

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Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.