What rights do whistleblowers have in Germany?

First of all they receive love. Tough love. And then the courts. Especially when you report about Daimler Benz. It's about "Modern Slavery" and outsourcing of labor in order save on wages big time. In other words, it is about THE business model in export-dependent Germany and the Daimler AG hates publicity of that sort.

The courts in Germany probably would have fucked Erin Brockovich. In Bavaria off to Dachau concentration camp.

vie Google Translate:

On Wallraff traces: What may whistleblower?

Published on June 25, 2015 by Stephan Dirks .

The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court is expected to decide on July 8 in a matter that has what it takes to make it to the Federal Constitutional Court: It is about that of Günter Wallraff at least co-founded the genre formerly known as "operational report". Today that is also like "investigative journalism" and people that provide the material for the operation reports, one also says "Whistleblower". The impending decision concerning Daimler AG ./. Südwestrundfunk (SWR), we take the opportunity to look at us once the legal framework in which such a thing takes place.

Starting point: "pittance on the assembly line"

The case, which according to the Regional Court of Stuttgart (for local first-instance decision and Jura radio no. 118 of 10/14/2014, from minute 1'15 " ) now in the second instance the judge of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court to decide, revolves around a documentary of the SWR which was broadcast on 05.13.2013 (and available at the time of writing this article nor is YouTube). It is about a state of affairs which is characterized in the report as "modern slavery": Outsourcing simple activities in manufacturing to logistics companies in the way of service contracts with the obvious aim to circumvent collective agreements and to save labor costs.

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When will the Germans have this deleted?