It's a Matter of Trust: Compliance Experts on How to Get Employees to Report Misconduct
A former DOJ compliance counsel and a former division GC at General Electric both wrote on the challenges that companies face around internal reporting of misconduct.
February 22, 2018 at 05:13 PM
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Two legal compliance experts recently shared, in separate blog posts, why they believe in-house efforts to get employees to speak up about misconduct may be failing. It all comes down to trust, they said.
Lorene Schaefer, a former division general counsel at General Electric Co. and now managing partner of the boutique Atlanta law firm Schaefer & Associates, wrote about her in-house legal days when co-workers distrusted the human resources department, referring to HR as “the company spies.”
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