Managing Employee Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries — Hiring to Firing Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education
Podcast - The Latest on Antitrust and Non-Compete Agreements in Healthcare
Protecting Trade Secrets When Facing Lawsuits or Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Episode 138 -- Employee Relations and Engagement in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Day 19 of One Month to More Effective Continuous Improvement-Use of Social Media for Continuous Improvement
Compliance professionals constantly seek to understand how systemic issues within corporate hierarchies can lead to severe consequences. The recent revelations about Bank of America’s (BoA) persistent workplace culture...more
Answering the question of how much money a compliance and ethics program saves an organization when there’s been a violation is often a very difficult task, which presents a challenge in defending the investment in a program....more
Writing, implementing, and enforcing strong compliance-related policies is critical to any compliance and ethics program. So, why do so many compliance failures occur due to breakdowns in internal controls?...more
We conclude our focus on culture this week by returning to some of our long-time compliance roots for improving culture, such as the listening tour. In 2022, returning Starbucks Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Howard Schultz...more
Suppose there is one thing I have learned from working with Carsten Tams, an ethical business architect and founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Emagence LLC. In that case, employee engagement is one of the very top...more
US DOL Budget Will Remain at its Present Level Through March 22, 2024 - It has now become clear that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the stomach to shut the federal government agencies down, but neither does either...more
I do not think it would be too controversial to say that compliance programs play a crucial role in ensuring that organizations adhere to legal and ethical standards. That is basically what we are all striving to do. However,...more
Corporate leaders know what to say and when to say it – for example, a CEO may state at an employee meeting, “We want to hear your concerns. We want you to bring these concerns forward and we will address them. We are...more
Whether or not you believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over, it is essential for employers to realize we are in a new normal that has created change in the workplace and a surge in employee burnout. The American Psychological...more
By now, most compliance professionals are aware of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) press release from January 5, which announced its proposed rule to ban noncompete clauses. The FTC proposed adding a new subchapter J,...more
I managed not to lose my temper when a training skeptic informed me that he wasn’t a fan of compliance training because “it’s not going to make a dishonest person do the right thing.” Indeed, I doubt anyone who previously had...more
Compliance does not exist in a time-warp vacuum, with programs living in 1977 when the first major anti-corruption legislation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was passed. The law has advanced since that time, as has...more
Yesterday I wrote about the use of internal employee crowdsourcing as an innovation tool for a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to enhance a best practices compliance program. Multiple readers noted the topic with approval and...more
Whom to suspend during any Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation is always a delicate question to answer. Unfortunately there is never an easy answer. As the Volkswagen (VW) emission-testing scandal continues to...more
As of July 1 of this year, Spain becomes the latest in a string of nations with a corporate compliance defense. Article 33 of Spain’s criminal code will provide an exemption from corporate criminal liability where the company...more
One thing about maintaining a blog – you have nightmares (alright something a little less than that) about consistency in writing. All of us can be accused of having “evolving” positions, so maybe that is my rationalization....more
I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on great structural engineering and its innovations in the medieval world – that being the Gothic Cathedral. I am drawing these posts from The Great Courses offering, entitled...more