Being a whistleblower means taking a professional risk and tremendous personal sacrifice. When you blow your whistle, you need to be guaranteed protection against retaliation.
Whistleblower protection laws provide whistleblowers protection against harassment, discrimination, and reprisal. The whistleblower gets the right to file a private legal complaint or declare a claim in the event the whistleblower suffers retaliation for whistleblowing.
A whistleblower retaliation transpires when you get sacked, relegated, suspended, threatened, intimidated, harassed, or subjected to harsh work conditions after pursuing a protected whistleblower activity.