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A multinational corporation, which owns Jaguar Land Rover, sacked an engineer after he raised safety concerns about electric cars it designed. Mechanical engineer Hazar Denli informed bosses at Tata Technologies that the Ford-owned VinFast car’s wheels could become misaligned, which could cause the vehicle to lose control. Blacklisted by his former employer, Mr Denli was in touch with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and discovered VinFast had issued a recall reportedly due to his concerns. He took work at JLR before evidence emerged that Tata Group had arranged for Mr Denli to be dismissed due to his whistleblowing.
In email exchanges between Tata Group executives, confidential emails reveal the manufacturer retaliated against Mr Denli for posting safety concerns, which it said put lives at risk. US authorities are investigating an earlier model of a VinFast car following reports of 28 safety defects and a fatal crash involving a family of four. While JLR and Tata declined to comment, Mr Denli says he identified improperly designed components in VinFast’s chassis, including its suspension system. The unsafe components were present in previous models still on sale.
There is growing pressure on the UK Government to increase protections for whistleblowers, amid concerns that existing protections are too weak. Any clause in a contract that seeks to bind workers to silence is void under the Public Interest Disclosure at Work Act 1998. However, workers who disclose information supporters believe shows that an individual’s health and safety may be put at risk have found themselves fired, blacklisted for future work and have suffered personally.
Chief executive of Whistleblowers UK, Georgina Halford-Hall, said this is a common story of hundreds of whistleblowers who have reported attempted retaliation. A bill will be introduced later this week in the House of Lords, proposing the establishment of an Office of the Wh
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