So yesterday Tagesschau reported on the whistleblower of the Engadin construction cartel (Adam Quadroni) who lost his construction business due to being a persona non grata in the industry post-whistleblowing. Now his house was auctioned off (forced sale) to cover some of his debt. The only 'good news' is that some person (who may or may not represent a group of private supporters) bought his house and will let him live in it.

This raises the question to me again:

Why are we unwilling to protect whistleblowers better? He received zero compensation from the authorities who cited a lack of legal framework.

There was a motion in 2024 by an FDP politician (Ruedi Noser) which failed spectacularly in the Nationalrat. The Federal Council was also against it, citing a lack of capability of winning a majority.

So what exactly is the problem here? Is it this guy's rationale?

Philippe Nantermod (FDP/VS) übte als zweiter Kommissionssprecher auch inhaltliche Kritik an der Motion. Er verwies auf die Wichtigkeit der Treuepflicht gegenüber dem Arbeitgeber im Schweizer Arbeitsrecht.

What a joke of an argumentation.

Are there just too many lobbyists in our parliament who are scared for their financial sponsors?

Due to the utter unwillingness of politicians to work on this matter, it seems like high time to take this up by us plebs with an initiative?

by onehandedbackhand

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  2. While I’m on favor of whistleblower protection, this:

    > So yesterday Tagesschau reported on the whistleblower of the Engadin construction cartel (Adam Quadroni) who lost his construction business due to being a person non-grata in the industry post-whistleblowing. Now his house was auctioned off (forced sale) to cover some of his debt.

    This is pure bullshit. Whistleblower protection doesn’t have anything to do with “people no longer want to engage with you”.

    What are you suggesting, a law forcing everyone to like you?

    Similarly, the debt has nothing to do with it: you start a company, you take risks, shit happens.

    This case isn’t about whistleblower protection, this is about rewarding it: the whistleblower should get a % of the funds recovered.

    Other than that, there’s nothing which can be done in this case, you can’t force other companies to hire his company, or protect his company (and himself) from debtors, as the debtors have nothing to do with the whistleblowing.

  3. Omerta bro, don’t fuck with the money, swiss people hate that.

  5. Our government didn’t care about giving Assange political asylum. Our government didn’t want to have anything to do with Snowden.

    Politicians come and go, yet the results for whistle-blowers are still the same, no matter how big or little the uncovered scandal is.

    Our politicians like speaking about the ideals of democracy, freedom, and neutrality, yet they don’t really live by them.

  7. If people are afraid to support the forthcoming of the truth to the public, then they know that the truth is ugly and rotten to its core

  8. Because this country has a mafia sense within its soul
    Government over the years made deals with the devil to keep jobs and companies, so to say. This is the drawback
    Unrelated but similar is that government was against smoking ban for teenagers, just to make tobacco lobby happy
    Money above everything, and the population is just a test rabbit to exploit
    Democracy ecc is just facade. It’s more a financial light dictatorship

  9. Switzerland in general doesn’t care about high level corruption or crime. As long as the money rolls, all is fine and dandy.

  10. Switzerland is a crappy house with gold on the outside. It looks nice but is crap.

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