Partnerships could now be saddled with a new layer of financial and administrative responsibility after a Supreme Court ruling last week found that partners are ‘workers’ for the purposes of whistleblowing legislation.
The precedent-setting judgment, which followed an as yet untested claim brought by former Clyde & Co partner Krista Bates van Winkelhof, found that as workers, members of limited liability partnerships (LLPs) have the same protections as employees if they have ‘blown the whistle’ at work.
