WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY

  1. POLICY STATEMENT

Whistle-blowing is the term used to describe the disclosure of information about suspected wrongdoing or dangers identified at work.

LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED is committed to always conducting its business with honesty and integrity. If at any time, this commitment is not respected or appears to be in question,

LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED will endeavour to identify and remedy such situations. Therefore, it is the company’s policy to ensure that when a person has reasonable grounds to believe that an employee, manager or any other person related to the company has committed, or is about to commit, an offence that could harm the company’s business or reputation, it denounced the wrongdoers in question.

The whistle blowing policy has been put in place to.

  • Encourages employees, partners or managers to disclose this information or behaviour.
  • Protecting complainants from reprisals.
  • Treated all parties to an investigation in a fair and equitable manner.
  • To ensure confidentiality as much as possible;’
  • Take corrective and disciplinary action if wrongdoing is discovered.
  1. PURPOSE

The purpose of the whistle-blowing policy is to encourage current and former employees, contractual third parties or partners to communicate events that raise serious concern about

LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED

LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED encourages and will support staff who report illegal practices or individual who violate the organization’s policies.

  1. SCOPE

This policy applies to all employees of LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED, as well as contractual third parties or partners doing business with the company.

  1. DUTY TO REPORT MISCONDUCT

It is the duty of all employees, contractual third parties or partners to report misconduct or suspected misconduct, including fraud and financial impropriety to the board. This includes misconducts such as but not limited to:

  • Providing false or misleading information or withholding materials information on LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED financial statements, accounting auditing or other financial reporting fraud or misrepresentation.
  • Pursuit of material benefit or advantage in violation of LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED Conflict of interest Policy.
  • Misappropriation or misuse of LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED resources such as funds, supplies or other assets.
  • Unauthorised alteration or manipulation of computer files
  • Destroying, altering, mutilating, concealing, covering up, falsifying, or making a false entry in any records that may be connected to an official proceeding, in violation of federal, provisional or state.

Whistle-blowing is the term used to describe the disclosure of information about suspected wrongdoing or dangers identified at work.

We believe that anyone who raises any type of concern about work that they believe to be true should be treated with respect and should not suffer as a result. Some examples of whistle-blowing concerns include:

  • Any criminal offence (such as fraud or theft)
  • Any breach of a legal obligation or duty
  • A miscarriage of justice
  • A danger to the health and safety of any individual
  • Dangers to the environment
  • Deliberate concealment of information tending to show any of the above five matters

How to raise a concern

Usually, the first step is to contact your Line manager, who is then required to refer the matter to the appropriate officer.

If you don’t feel able to approach your manager, you can raise a concern to the whistle-blowing officer whose contact details can be found in the whistle-blowing policy.

Concerns may be raised orally or in writing on the whistleblowing form, a letter or email- whistleblowingreports@leadzservices.com. All complaints and reports would be dealt in confidence.

We believe that any worker should feel confident and able to voice whistle-blowing concerns openly under this policy. However, we accept that some workers may wish to raise a concern confidentially or anonymously.

The Employment Rights Act 1996 provides protection under the law for whistle-blowers, and any whistle-blower will be protected and supported by LEADZ SERVICES LIMITED