Spotting a poorly written compliance policy is easy: Ask an employee to articulate a rule stated in the policy, and if the answer is not clear, neither is your policy. Sometimes good policies can turn into bad ones during the updating process due to a changing risk or evolving regulatory environment.
As companies look to improve their compliance policies each year, we thought we would use the University of Houston Law Center’s database of Fortune 500 policies found in Codes of Conduct and other benchmarking we have conducted to review the National Football League’s new policy, which it updated at the end of last year. The NFL’s revised Personal Conduct Policy came complete with a lengthy communication and slick flowchart showing how an internal investigation works (our favorite part of the rollout).
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