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Whistleblower & Ethics
Safe, optionally anonymous reporting with confidential investigations and POSH workflows
Whistleblower & Ethics provides multi-channel, optionally anonymous intake of ethics concerns, POSH complaints and vigil-mechanism reports. Triage, investigation and outcomes run under strict access controls.
What it does
Whistleblower & Ethics is designed to give employees and others a safe way to raise concerns, and to run confidential triage, investigation and outcomes with strict access controls and anti-retaliation monitoring. It covers ethics concerns, POSH complaints and vigil-mechanism reports.
Intake
Reports can come through a web form with no login, mobile, WhatsApp, a voice hotline, email or an in-person record made by the committee. Anonymous reporters receive a report key and passphrase for two-way follow-up. For anonymous web reports, no IP or device data is retained, and anonymity limits per channel are disclosed. Before an anonymous submission, the reporter is warned if they appear to have included their own identity. Localised forms and hotline prompts in Indian languages are planned, with transcription marked machine-generated until verified.
Triage and investigation
Categories such as fraud, bribery, harassment and POSH, discrimination, safety, data misuse and conflict of interest route to configured committees. Triage is conflict-aware: named subjects are excluded from access, and routing bypasses a committee member who is implicated. Cases carry severity, status, investigator, timeline and restricted notes and evidence. Investigations follow a plan, interview records, evidence collection, findings and recommendation. Outcomes are recorded as substantiated, unsubstantiated or partially substantiated, with actions such as training or a disciplinary process in Core HR decided by HR, and feedback to the reporter.
Statutory workflows and insights
At GA, a POSH Internal Committee workflow covers timelines, inquiry steps, interim relief, conciliation, reports and annual report data, and a vigil mechanism path reaches the audit committee chair where required (both to be verified). Anti-retaliation monitoring watches HR events affecting identified reporters for a configured period. Aggregated, anonymised trends with minimum group sizes feed Enterprise Risk.
What is different
Ethics data is restricted, processed only by in-region models and only for users inside the case scope. No AI is used for investigation findings, outcomes or disciplinary recommendations. Planned for W4 (Year 3), subject to counsel review.
Features
What Whistleblower & Ethics includes
Multi-channel intake
No-login web form, mobile, WhatsApp, voice hotline, email and committee-recorded reports.
Anonymous two-way messaging
Report key and passphrase, no IP or device retention for anonymous web reports, disclosed channel limits.
Categories and routing
Fraud, bribery, harassment and POSH, discrimination, safety, data misuse and conflicts routed to committees.
Conflict-aware triage
Named subjects excluded from access and routing bypass when a committee member is implicated.
Case management
Severity, status, investigator, timeline and restricted notes and evidence.
Investigation workflow
Plan, interview records, evidence collection, findings and recommendation.
Outcomes and closure
Recorded outcome, HR-decided actions and feedback to the reporter.
POSH Internal Committee workflow
Timelines, inquiry steps, interim relief, conciliation, report and annual data (to verify).
Vigil mechanism
Direct path to the audit committee chair where required (to verify).
Anti-retaliation monitoring
Watchlist of HR events affecting identified reporters with alerts to the ethics officer.
Aggregated insights
Anonymised trends with minimum group sizes feeding Enterprise Risk.
Indian-language intake and transcription
Localised forms and hotline prompts with human-verified transcription.
Workflow
Anonymous report to closure
- 1
A reporter submits anonymously and receives a report key
- 2
The report routes to the configured committee, excluding named subjects
- 3
The ethics officer triages category and urgency
- 4
An investigation is planned and evidence gathered
- 5
The committee records an outcome; any disciplinary action is decided by HR
- 6
The reporter receives feedback through the anonymous channel and anti-retaliation monitoring runs
AI
AI skills and Digital Employees
Triage suggestions
Category and urgency suggestions; the officer decides.
Hotline transcription
Voice transcription and translation marked machine-generated until verified.
Self-identification warning
Warns anonymous reporters who may have included their own identity.
Aggregated themes
Theme clustering with minimum group sizes and no free text in outputs.
Frequently asked questions
Is reporting truly anonymous?
Anonymous web reports retain no IP or device data, and follow-up uses a report key and passphrase. Anonymity limits differ by channel and are disclosed to the reporter.
Does AI decide case outcomes?
No. Investigation findings, outcomes and disciplinary recommendations have no AI involvement.
Does it support POSH?
A POSH Internal Committee workflow is planned for GA. POSH Act requirements must be verified with counsel.
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