Whistleblowing in Hungary

Kun, Attila

dc.contributor.author	Kun, Attila
dc.contributor.editor	Skupień, Dagmara
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-19T10:22:07Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-19T10:22:07Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Kun A., Whistleblowing in Hungary, [in:] Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia, D. Skupień (ed.), WUŁ–WN PWN, Łódź 2021, https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-639-5.07	pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-8220-639-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/39813
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this chapter is to take a general account of the past and current practices, experiences and challenges of whistleblowing legislation and whistleblower protection in Hungary. The emphasis will be put on the critical analysis of the currently effective regulatory environment of whistleblowing and whistleblower protection in Hungary, with specific regard to labour law aspects. Furthermore, the context, prospects and basic requirements of the future implementation of the EU Directive will also be highlighted. In this vein, Section 2 sketches the historical, societal and constitutional context. Section 3, as the central part of this study, examines in detail the currently effective legislative framework of whistleblowing in Hungary. Section 4 deals specifically with the labour law-related aspects of whistleblowing, while Section 5 takes a brief look into other related fields of law (including anti-discrimination, criminal law, and trade secrets). Section 6 considers recent and relevant critical opinions and motions for reform. Section 7 looks into the possible challenges and the main tentative tasks of the upcoming transposition of the Directive into Hungarian law. Finally, Section 8 draws some broad, general conclusions.	pl_PL
dc.description.sponsorship	The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the Fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.	pl_PL
dc.language.iso	en	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl_PL
dc.relation.ispartof	Towards a Better Protection of Workplace Whistleblowers in the Visegrad Countries, France and Slovenia;
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Visegrad Countries	pl_PL
dc.subject	Whistleblowers	pl_PL
dc.title	Whistleblowing in Hungary	pl_PL
dc.type	Book chapter	pl_PL
dc.page.number	115-140	pl_PL
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Faculty of Law, Department of Labour Law and Social Security	pl_PL
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-83-8220-640-1
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnote	Professor of labour law and head of the Department of Labour Law and Social Security at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Faculty of Law, Hungary (Budapest). He is also a part-time scholar at the National University of Public Service (NKE), Department of Human Resources. He is a member of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – PTE Research Group of Comparative and European Employment Policy and Labour Law. He is the national coordinator and member of the Hungarian Labour Advisory and Dispute Settlement Service (MTVSZ). He has been a visiting scholar at numerous foreign universities (e.g. University of Tokyo; Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union at Trier University; Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; University of Amsterdam; Erasmus teaching staff mobility in several countries) and a member of numerous (including EU-funded and other) international research projects. He is a member of several academic networks (e.g.: ILO CEELex Network; Advisory Committee of the LLRN; Hungarian Labour Law Association; Academic network on the OECD Guidelines for MNEs; Organising Committee of the Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition, HS MCC; national coordinator of the ISLSSL’s Hungarian youth section etc.). He holds the Marco Biagi Prize 2011 (together with Beryl ter Haar from the Netherlands and Manuel Antonio García-Muńoz Alhambra from Spain), awarded by the Association of Labour Law Journals.	pl_PL
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dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/8220-639-5.07