When Rights Collide: How to Respond — Legally, Ethically and Rationally — to Whistleblower Demands
A whistleblower alleges corrupt treatment by your company and demands payment or else they’re heading for the authorities. You aren’t ...
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The Leaked Affidavit: ZTE General Counsel Feared for His Life After Revealing Sanction-Dodging Scheme [Book Excerpt]
Sound governance must encourage those who see something to say something. But that’s easier said than done. In this excerpt ...
Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Are Different. Here’s How to Deal With Them.
Compliance teams could see an uptick in cybersecurity whistleblower complaints as regulators expand protections and incentives for those reporting data ...
How Corporate Malfeasance Takes Root, According to Whistleblower and Embezzler Mark Whitacre
In 1992, Mark Whitacre, a divisional president at ADM, began to cooperate with the FBI in their investigation into alleged ...
DOJ’s Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative Could Find Health Care Companies Exposed on Multiple Fronts
The Biden Administration and DOJ intend to pursue cyber fraud through the False Claims Act (FCA), with an emphasis on ...
Where Did 2021 Go?
If 2020 goes down in history as the year the world shut down, 2021 should be remembered as the year ...
As EU Whistleblower Regulation Enforcement Date Nears, Ripple Effects Expected Across Europe
The deadline for E.U. member states to transpose the Whistleblower Protection Directive into national laws is Dec. 17, 2021. Once ...
Vault Platform’s Trust Gap Report: Expectation vs. Reality in Workplace Misconduct and Speak Up Culture
Workplace technology provider Vault's first-ever "Trust Gap Report" has determined that despite a renewed awareness of and interest in preventing ...
3 in 4 Office Workers in US, UK Have Seen or Experienced Workplace Misconduct, Vault Platform Survey Finds
About three-quarters of office workers in the U.S. and U.K. have either witnessed or personally experienced some form of misconduct ...
USA Gymnasts Saw Something and Said Something – But the FBI Didn’t Listen
The concept of speak up culture is well known in compliance circles. But what happens when the listen up culture ...
Emerging Markets Were Making Headway with Integrity and Ethics. Then COVID-19 Variants Hit.
According to a recent EY report on integrity in emerging markets, many professionals report that ethical cultures around the world ...
Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Is on the Rise: ECI’s Patricia Harned in Conversation
Retaliation against whistleblowers is spiking. Employees and managers are feeling increased pressure across the board. Yet many ethics programs and ...
