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.
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.
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.
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?
Should Workplace Sexual Harassment Victims Just Find a New Job?
Workplace sexual harassment is against the law, it is against most reasonable companies’ Code of Conduct, and certainly morally reprehensible. It saddens me that our culture dictates that when women are victimized by sexual predators, traumatized by these actions, that they should “quit and find a new job.” This behavior cannot and should not be endorsed or looked past.
Powerful New OSHA Rule Challenges Post-Accident Drug Testing
The final wording in 29 CFR 1904 essentially requires employers to electronically submit incident reports on workplace injuries that they are already required to keep under current OSHA regulations. But they had to go and tack on that last phrase which potentially challenges the legality of post-accident drug testing.
What Does Britain's EU Exit Mean for Your Company's Global Compliance Strategy?
We’re an ethics company, and although interested in the political ramifications (it’s impossible after all to grow up and live in Washington DC without being a political junkie!), I came back to “what does this mean for my clients?” and “how do I counsel their global compliance strategy in light of Brexit?”