Whistle-blowing hotline launched

Report a misconduct and risk losing your job, feign ignorance and allow your conscience to be pricked - these are common dilemmas employees face when they come to know of unethical behaviour among their colleagues.

Without a confidential feedback channel, workers may turn to the media and the company may incur huge financial and reputation losses from the bad publicity generated.

To solve this problem, a whistle-blowing hotline was launched on Tuesday by Singapore firm Q2 Consulting Partner and United States' Global Compliance for employees to file allegations against their own company.

They can either choose to disclose the content anonymously or non-anonymously and investigations will then be made to verify the case.

According to a Global Compliance spokesperson, 40 Singapore firms have already signed up for this service.

Businesses providing whistle-blowing services have become more popular since 2006, after the slew of corporate and charity scandals in Singapore.

Local auditing firms such as Deloitte Singapore said more companies are taking up whistle-blowing services whereby staff can feedback through hotlines, emails and SMSes.

Similarly, employees can choose to remain anonymous.

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