Simple and Effective Tips for Human Resources Investigations
As you build trust and promote your ethics and compliance hotline, your employees will start to share their questions and concern either through your hotline web portal, over the phone, directly to you, or directly to management. Remember regardless of how the concern comes in or to whom it is reported you should have a consistent process in place to document and manage the investigation.
Traliant and ETHIX360 Announce Strategic Partnership
Traliant, an innovator in online compliance training, and ETHIX360, a provider of employee ethics communication and case management services, today announced a strategic partnership.
16 Questions to Help You Develop a Comprehensive Crisis Plan
The most important time you can spend on crisis communications is the time prior to the actual crisis. This is the time when you identify the most likely and difficult situations that could damage your organization’s reputation and ability to function effectively. By properly planning for the worst possible scenario you can then scale down the responses to lesser issues.
4 Best Practices for a Compliance Investigation That Uber Should Look Into
Take the time to look at your company’s current hotline, open-door reporting and investigation program, and process. Chances are if they aren’t reporting any type of concern, compliance related or not, either they don’t know where or how to report the issue, do not think their report will be taken seriously, or worse, have a fear of retaliation.
Top 5 Non-GDPR Compliance Issues Facing Chief Compliance Officers
Managing an ethics and compliance program is challenging enough without the extra stress and resource drain that GDPR has brought to the equation. With limited time and limited resources, it is clear that the task at hand for compliance officers is not an easy one. Luckily it can be done!
SOX: One of the Most Important Whistleblower Protection Laws?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) contains significant protections for corporate whistleblowers. Given its diverse civil, criminal, and administrative provisions, the statute may be considered, over time, one of the most important whistleblower protection laws.
4 Simple Ways to Prevent a Hostile Work Environment
As an employer or supervisor, it’s your responsibility to create a work environment that’s free of all types of harassment, including verbal, physical, and sexual harassment. If you want your employees to do their jobs well, they need to feel safe and respected when dealing with their colleagues every day.
Survey Roundup: Boards Want More Cyber-Effectiveness Data
A look at some recent surveys and reports dealing with risk and compliance issues.
4 Types of Medicare Fraud and How to Protect Yourself From Them
With more than 4 million Medicare claims processed each and every day, instances of Medicare fraud can easily get buried in the shuffle. And if your provider is forced to pay out on a fraudulent claim, that could result in your premiums going up through no fault of your own. That’s why it is important that you know how to spot potential Medicare fraud and what to do about it if and when you find something suspicious.
How to Be Sure You’re Meeting New GDPR Compliance Requirements
Since adopting the GDPR in April 2016, the EU wants companies to be GDPR-compliant by May 25th of 2018. So, if your company is conducting online transactions in the EU, you should take a moment to learn about the GDPR and the steps you can take to comply with the law.
Who Needs to Have an Active Shooter Policy? Everyone!
There are a number of components to an active shooter policy – with a portion being to train employees what to actually do in the event of an active shooter scenario playing out at work. Hide? Run? What is the chain of command in the event of an incident? What if it is not in our offices, but is the one next door? Safe evacuation. Communicating clearly with first responders when you can.
What Corporate Compliance Programs Can Teach Us About School Safety
Working in the world of corporate ethics and compliance for the past decade has taught me that visibility leads to knowledge. One of my favorite quotes is from Confucius, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” I think many of the school systems across the US have a blind spot and do not realize that what worked yesterday may not work today, and certainly will not work tomorrow.
Is the Corporate World Really Changing Thanks to #MeToo?
Now in today’s news, we see an example that simply would not have happened only a few short years ago. A few years ago when allegations against a senior executive at a company like Ford would have been denied, swept under the rug, and the reporter would have been outed and shunned.
How to Defend Your Company Against #MeToo With a Sexual Harassment Hotline
The #MeToo movement is partially about the restoration of dignity, partly about these monologues from Mad Men seeing daylight, and partly about saying never again will women be forced to endure what they have in the past.
ETHIX360 Acquires Devesys Technologies, Inc.
ETHIX360 announced today that it had reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Palm Springs, CA-based Devesys Technologies, Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the transaction was closed with the unanimous consent of both companies’ Boards of Directors.
ETHIX360 Invests in Compliance as It Hires First Chief Compliance Officer
Stephanie Jenkins has joined ETHIX360 as their first Chief Compliance Officer. In her role, Stephanie will be responsible for oversight of all compliance risks and quality. As Chief Compliance Officer, she will focus on building a culture of compliance from the ground up and help ensure the company meets all its compliance management responsibilities.
The Pros and Cons of a Relaxed Summer Dress Code
Employees across the country are rolling up their sleeves and perhaps even wearing tank tops, shorts, halter dresses, shoes with no socks, or flip-flops to work. But are they exposing more skin, tattoos, and/or piercings than is appropriate?
ETHIX360 Announces Exit Interview-as-a-Service
Research has shown that exit interviews, when done internally, do not reveal the true reasons that employees are leaving. Oftentimes, departing employees fear burning a bridge that may cost them a positive reference in the future is not worth the risk of reporting their true reason for departing, especially if it is related to management conduct.
Things to Consider as We Welcome the Gen Z Workforce
We are welcoming a new generation into the workplace: Generation Z. So it’s probably time to stop and reflect on who they are and how their entry into the workforce will affect our view on ethics and our Ethics Policies.
The Competitive Advantage of a Strong Corporate Compliance Program
We can often get so mired down in the minutia of compliance, investigations, policy management, and… let’s admit it… paperwork. We lose sight of the bigger picture and what ethical compliance should and can mean to our organizations.