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As COVID-19 sweeps the country, employers are wondering how to handle their workforces. Attorneys from Poyner Spruill tackle employers’ concerns at the moment, from establishing leave-sharing programs to changes in an employee’s visa status. The threat posed by the novel...

The conditions that allowed the novel coronavirus to flourish and to jump to humans aren’t common in most parts of the world, yet the impact of COVID-19 has touched billions already. This is the way toxic culture works, says Sandy...

Fusion Risk Management’s Kim Hirsch has been advising clients on pandemic planning and business continuity management nonstop since the outbreak of COVID-19. Here, Kim discusses preparedness, quarantine-related issues and the critical risks businesses are facing currently. What are the most...

As health care and cleaning products fly off the shelves, the DOJ is taking action. Cozen O’Connor’s David Reichenberg discusses how its new directive is affecting everyday business and what organizations can do to maintain compliance. In the wake of...

Disruptive innovation has a clear impact on the half-life of companies’ business models. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach continues a two-part series covering how industry disruption and digital transformation present a new frontier of opportunity and risk that is shaping – and...

The proliferation of ephemeral messaging poses unique challenges when it comes to e-discovery. Buckley LLP’s Scott Sakiyama outlines those challenges, highlights recent case law and provides guidance for companies to follow. Howard Baker’s quote – “it is almost always the...

Character is magnified in a crisis. As the coronavirus crisis has unfolded, we’ve seen lots of heroic efforts, but also lots of selfishness. Calvin London offers some takeaways for the compliance practitioner from these troubled times. Australia, like many other...

The global coronavirus outbreak is putting every organization’s business continuity plans to the test. Geneia’s Rick Reed suggests that if your company wasn’t ready for this crisis, now’s the time to strengthen your plans for the next one. COVID-19 is...

OSHA doesn’t seem to explicitly require an infectious disease response plan, but it’s prudent to prepare one anyway. Husch Blackwell’s Avi Meyerstein provides five major planning elements to help companies create a COVID-19 response plan. No company and no industry...

Whatever “flavor” of compliance incentives you offer, they need to be reassessed regularly. Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker discuss what to take into account. The Sentencing Guidelines provide, in relevant part: “the organization’s compliance and ethics program shall be promoted...

As the response to the spread of the coronavirus escalates, companies are becoming increasingly dependent on a work-from-home workforce. Experts at Manatt discuss what security concerns companies must take into account with this increase in remote work. Businesses’ responses to...

The COVID-19 outbreak is drastically changing American life, seemingly overnight. While certain industries have been hit especially hard already, it is likely this pandemic will have an impact on every business sector. Employment attorney Alyson Brown looks at this evolving...