How to protect "whistleblower" when employees report corporate violations

　　Recently, an insurance company employee's real-name report of a large number of fraudulent companies caused widespread concern.

On February 24, an employee who claimed to have worked in China Life Nenjiang branch for 16 years posted a report video that was posted on hot searches.

The party concerned reported that: The general manager of China Life Heilongjiang Nenjiang Branch had problems such as fraudulent insurance premiums and fraudulent insurance arbitrage for personal gain.

At the same time, the person concerned also stated that she had been retaliated against by the company for reporting to the company's leaders and had been expelled.

In this regard, a relevant person from China Life said that it is investigating and verifying, and will respond to relevant developments in a timely manner.

　　Whether the specific content of the report is true or not requires further investigation by the relevant departments, and the outside world cannot be determined for the time being.

However, before the report occurred, the branch’s long-term insurance and short-term business, false operations, and false reimbursement of company expenses were indeed investigated by the Heilongjiang Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau.

In this case, it is necessary for China Life to intervene in the investigation, and it is also in line with the law and reason.

Under investigation, the truth of the matter will be revealed sooner or later.

　　Compared with the investigation results of a single case, the recent frequent reports of corporate employees' misconducts of their employees are undoubtedly more social issues worthy of attention.

　　To constrain corporate behavior, institutional norms and active supervision of relevant departments certainly play a major role.

However, external supervision cannot cover everything, and it is inevitable that some dirty "little secrets" are hidden in places that external supervision cannot reach.

Under this circumstance, the existence of "whistleblowers" within the enterprise has very important positive value.

In this case, at the institutional level, encouraging insiders to report corporate misconduct and providing protection to them will help maintain market rules.

　　In the domestic film "Whistleblower", the actor was "globally chased and killed" by the company's executives because he reported the risk of explosion in the company's project.

Although the content of the film is slightly exaggerated, it is an indisputable fact that internal whistleblowers can easily lead to retaliation.

Only by facing up to the real dilemma faced by such people can they overcome their "dare to report" concerns and expose corporate misconduct.

　　In September 2019, the "Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening and Regulating Interim and Ex Post Supervision" was officially released.

At that time, the document proposed that a system of “whistleblower” and internal whistleblower should be established, and those who have reported serious violations of laws and regulations and major hidden risks should be rewarded and strictly protected.

The document also pointed out that it is necessary to establish a system of severe punishment for violations of the law, a system of punitive damages and huge fines, a system of rewards for internal whistleblowers, etc., to improve the effectiveness of key supervision and make serious offenders pay high costs.

At the local level, Shenzhen’s "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Regulations on Public Health Emergencies (Draft for Comment)" issued last year also made it clear that “whistleblowers” ​​are protected by law, and non-malicious reports will not be held accountable.

　　Although system construction is already on the way, there is still a long way to go before it actually takes place.

Therefore, to encourage and protect internal whistleblowers, we cannot just wait for the improvement of the system, but also need emergency measures.

For specific reports, it is necessary to give full play to the role of the supervisory authority to investigate the problems and provide protection to legitimate reporters.

For related companies and units that violate regulations and laws, it is even more important to find out and punish them severely.

　　Mocheng