The new regulatory framework (Articles 2–23 of Law 4808/2021) highlights the paramount role of protecting victims, complainants, and witnesses from further victimisation or retaliation, thereby ensuring that affected persons have access to more effective and safer reporting mechanisms. Specifically, any dismissal or termination in any way of the legal relationship forming the basis of employment, as well as any other adverse treatment of any affected person, is prohibited and void, if it constitutes retaliatory behaviour that comes as a countermeasure to a complaint, testimony, the provision of information, or request for legal protection regarding an incident of violence or harassment (Article 13 of Law 4808/2021).
