Helpline Usage (or Lack Thereof)
What's Going on With Whistleblower Lines
Whistleblowers: Don't Drink the Government's Kool-Aid
Andy Dunbar and Nick Morgan on What the SEC Expects from Your Internal Investigation
Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 118-Hotline Metrics
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 40, COSO ERM Framework Update
Day 22 of One Month to Better Compliance Through HR-10 Questions to Better Operationalize Compliance
Day 15 of One Month to Better Compliance Through HR-Employment Separation Issues
We’ve talked before about how speak-up culture is on the rise; 6,000 more anonymous hotline reports were filed in 2023 than 2022, according to the respondent of Mitratech’s 2024 State of Ethics Reporting Hotlines....more
Empower your team and champion ethics with free resources, benchmarks and a global workshop - Protect your company Learn how to empower employees to speak up and safeguard your organization from risk. - Empower your...more
July 30, 2023 is officially National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. For the tenth consecutive year, the United States Senate unanimously passed a Resolution designating the day, which commemorates the United States’ first...more
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski unveiled an update to the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs during a speech in Dallas, Texas. In issuing the new document (the...more
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski unveiled an update to the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs during a speech in Dallas, Texas.[i] In issuing the new document...more
“When it comes to hotlines, I have said many times that the ‘easy’ part is setting up a phone number. The hard part is what the organization does with reports once it receives them.” — Carrie Penman...more
If compliance officers ever needed one more sign about the importance of anti-retaliation programs, it arrived on September 29, 2016. On that day, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) fined a company that makes...more
One collection of terms I hear a lot is “tools, processes and people.” All three need to be successfully deployed to make a compliance program run properly while also creating an organizational culture that supports...more
Too long. Too complicated. Too dense. Sound familiar? If your code of conduct isn’t a document you’re proud to share with your employees, customers, board and C-suite—or if your organization has recently had a big change...more
July 30 marks the 238th anniversary of passage of the first congressional protections for whistleblowers in the United States. As they have done in recent years, officials in Washington, D.C., will celebrate the anniversary...more
What does your code of conduct acknowledgement process look like? If your annual attestation language is long, confusing or overly complicated, you run the risk of alienating your employees—and missing an opportunity to...more
Benchmarking your organisation’s data against your peers across EMEA & APAC provides critical insights into the health of your ethics and compliance programmes. Our new report gives the most comprehensive picture of...more
Benchmarking your hotline compliance data against best practices and peer data is an important part of assessing the health of your company’s culture. But not all industry benchmarks are created equal....more