5. Whistleblowing: National Report for the Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, there is no comprehensive special whistleblowing legislation. If the notification is made within industrial relations, more precisely within private-law relations, then protection of whistleblowers as well as the ones who are notified, provides direct support especially the legislation on protection of personal data and indirectly also the constitutional foundations of the Czech legal order. The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic have commented, in the context of the principle of employee loyalty, on a practice which could be described as whistleblowing in the area of employment. The courts have in principle confirmed that even without an explicit legal basis it is possible in the legal order of the Czech Republic to found necessary normative basis for this practice.