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Companies should provide clear instructions on how employees can submit sensitive feedback, such as providing specific emails or telephone numbers to call.

Companies should provide clear instructions on how employees can submit sensitive feedback, such as providing specific e-mails or telephone numbers to call.

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The pen may be mightier than the sword, but this does not extend to malicious people who write “poison pen” e-mails to malign others.

A High Court ruling in 2022, which ordered

a whistle-blower to pay $50,000 to a former senior colleague over e-mails sent

to the firm’s boss that contained unproven and defamatory allegations, should serve as a cautionary tale.

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