June 04, 2014
Ethics Hotlines – Highlight of Regulatory Compliance
A number of laws and other government regulations require or strongly encourage organizations to provide…
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Ethical Advocate Blog
May 28, 2014
Ethics Hotline Report
The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)…
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May 21, 2014
Audit Business Ethics
General Motors is a 106-year-old multinational organization with 212,000 employees around the world. It is…
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May 14, 2014
Address Insider Trading
Last November SAC Capital Advisors became the first large Wall Street firm in twenty-five years…
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May 07, 2014
Whistleblowers and Confidentiality Agreements
Attorneys for the plaintiff in an ongoing whistleblower lawsuit (Barko v. Halliburton Company) allege Halliburton…
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April 30, 2014
Promote Hotlines During Ethics Week
Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week is a great time to reinforce the importance of ethics…
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April 23, 2014
SOX Whistleblower Protection
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the whistleblower protection granted by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act…
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April 16, 2014
Evaluating Ethics Hotlines
Most public companies and many private companies are required to implement whistleblower processes, which often…
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April 09, 2014
Hotlines Important for Nursing Facility Compliance
It has been just over one year since nursing facilities had to establish compliance and…
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April 02, 2014
Increase Ethics Hotline Reporting
Has ethics reporting stalled? The recently released 2013 National Business Ethics Survey of the U.S.…
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March 26, 2014
Whistleblower Suit and Attorney Client Privilege
The judge in an ongoing qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower suit, Barko v.…
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March 19, 2014
FAR Ethics Requirements
In advance of the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s (FAR’s) thirty-year anniversary (coming up on April 1)…
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