What Does Working From Home Mean for Workplace Romance?
There’s a fine line between acceptable workplace romance and acts that violate policy or create potential liability for the company. That’s where HR steps in with workplace dating and relationship policies, stopping unwelcomed advances and putting clear limits and expectations in policies that deal with coworker relationships, especially with employees in the same reporting structure or, even worse, between managers and employees.
Clear Policy Management Is Your Compliance Program's Best Defense
Some may say the purpose of an investigation is to uncover the truth, and that’s true, but what’s the process or business focus? Really very simple: Did the behavior alleged rise to be a violation of a published policy? Although the question is direct and succinct on the surface, there’s a lot to unpack there.
How to Save Time Updating Corporate Policies
Smaller HR teams have a full plate operationally – between onboarding, offboarding, payroll, and benefits management, where will they find the time to author the new policies they desperately need and update the existing ones to conform to changing legislation and reflect cultural norms?
How to Improve Your Corporate Compliance Program With the Help of the Department of Justice
Periodically, the US Department of Justice Criminal Division updates and releases guidelines for prosecutors for the evaluation of corporate compliance programs. Increasingly, the lines are blurred around liability between the bad actor who caused the incident, the permissive environment that allowed it to go previously undetected, and the company.
4 Things to Consider When Authoring Your Data Privacy Policy
While compliance professionals are allowed to rip off mattress tags and ignore email disclaimers, we actually have to author and enforce data privacy notices. Almost every application and website under the sun uses the words "I accept the privacy policy" somewhere. Even with that checkbox, the added complexity of GDPR, CCPA, and other similar laws might trump your policy anyway.
How to Write and Enforce Strong Reasonable Accommodations Policies
July is Disability Pride Month, and this blog is not to belittle or prioritize any area of DEI over another, but rather to call out and focus on what companies can do to be more inclusive and support the needs of persons with disabilities.
No Weapons Allowed? Says Who?
Employers need to know they have the power to enforce whether they will or will not allow firearms on their property, but proper enforcement requires clear policies, effective training, and attentive case management.
Pawternity Leave is a Thing.
I read with interest a blog post from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans concerning employers considering “pet-friendly” benefits. Pawternity leave is for real, and not just a punchline. The number of companies offering this is still small, but it’s growing.
Cracking the Code on Data Breach Investigations
We all understand the cost of a data breach, whether it be reputational or financial ruin. In fact, in an actual data breach event, the best-case outcome is minimal damage because you cannot escape totally unscathed.
Hurricanes, Blizzards, and Pandemics... OH MY!
There’s a lot of justifiable fear walking into 2022, just as there was for our three heroes walking into the dark forest that night many years ago. What will our lions, tigers, and bears be in the coming 12 months?
The EU Whistleblower Directive - a View from 15,000 Feet
In 2019, the European Union Council of Ministers adopted what would become known as the EU Whistleblower Directive, or commonly called the WB Directive. The Directive was put in place specifically to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and encourage the reporting of violations of Union law by driving common standards.
ETHIX360 Named a "Startup to Watch" for 2022
As 2021 comes to a close, Charlotte Inno has published their top 10 list of startups to watch in 2022. ETHIX360 is excited and humbled to have been included in the list alongside other groundbreaking local startups.
Passing the Baton
The past 18 months have put unprecedented stress on compliance and human resource programs almost universally. Although nearly every aspect of every business was impacted, some more severely than others, HR and compliance were uniquely impacted in many ways when HR had to…
Let Your CIO Worry About the IoT, You Worry About the IoB
For years we’ve all heard about the Internet of Things – the connectivity of all sorts of devices via the web through combinations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The IoT is what lets your refrigerator decide when you are low on milk, place an e-commerce order for groceries automatically, and have the milk delivered at your house before you even realized…
A Culture of Compliance
The simplest definition of compliance is “following a rule or order.” In fact, Merriam-Webster defines compliance as “the act or process of doing what you have been asked or ordered to do.” For a word that can invoke complexity, if properly instituted, a culture of compliance can help you move compliance from daunting to deliberate. At ETHIX360, we aim to…
Annual Policy Review and Updates... Fun Times!
In line with ever-evolving technological and legal updates, it’s imperative that compliance officers, as well as the HR department, carry out a thorough annual review of company policies and guidelines. So much can happen in a year, and it is important that policy changes are fully comprehended and understood by all employees.
3 Ways Your Company Can Benefit from an All-in-One Technology Vendor
Many HR professionals feel the stress of keeping track of the legal, cultural, and communication standards and expectations that seem to be evolving faster as we hit each new year. Their day-to-day can seem like they’re endlessly putting out fires instead of maintaining and improving their management methods.
Local tech firm ETHIX360 launches cloud-based policy management software
ETHIX60, founded in 2017 by J Rollins and Bob Latchford, provides comprehensive solutions to employee ethics communication, case management, compliance training and policy management. Rollins said the company is looking to disrupt the industry with its new, cloud-based policy management platform.
ETHIX360 Announces Cloud-Based Policy Management Solution
ETHIX360 announced the general availability of PolicyTrac, a cloud-based policy management system. PolicyTrac brings a number of innovations to a market long dominated by legacy solutions.
Back to School, Back to Work, but Not Quite Back to Normal
Restaurants are back open for inside dining throughout most of the country, but there’s plenty of empty tables. Schools are reopening, but with desks six feet apart and sporting dividers. Some patrons wearing masks by mandate and others by choice, but all looking at unmasked patrons who are glaring back at masked patrons in some kind of bizarre staring contest.