City Council recently voted to accept the provincial Public Interest Disclosure Act or Whistleblower Protection.  On CFAR’s City Beat the Vice-Chair of the Administration and Finance Committee Judy Eagle explained it protects City employees and staff….

“I’m just going to read a part of it.  It facilitates the disclosure and investigation of significant and serious matters in or relating to public service that are potentially unlawful, dangerous to the public or injurious to the public interest so if an employee needs to do this, they can do this, they don’t have to worry about administration disciplining them or firing them or playing favorites or anything like that if that was ever the case or ever could be the case, that’s over.  So it gives our staff a measure of confidence, a measure of its okay if they see something wrong, if they were to do that they can come forward.”

Eagle adds if you are interested in more information such as the rules and reporting process the policy and procedures of the Act can be found on the City of Flin Flon website.