Full Event Description
When an American employee falls under suspicion of some type of on-job wrongdoing—be it bribery, sabotage, accounting fraud, sexual harassment, antitrust collusion or some other wrongful act—conscientious and compliant U.S. multinationals have a good idea how to respond. By now, after so many highly-publicized corporate scandals, strategies for conducting a domestic-U.S. internal investigation are becoming increasingly similar, although “best practices”’ differ depending on the context.
And so, when conducting an internal investigation overseas, a U.S. multinational may feel tempted to pull out its domestic-U.S. kit of state-of-the art investigation tools and strategies. But employment and data protection laws differ widely outside the U.S., which means American investigation strategies need significant retooling before export. After all, no multinational investigating illegality abroad can afford to be accused, itself, of illegality in how it conducts its investigation.
This session covers how to adapt U.S.-style internal investigation strategies to workplaces outside the U.S. This is an issue-spotting overview of the 30 data and employment law issues most likely to arise when a U.S. multinational conducts a U.S.-style investigation internationally.
The session will address these 30 points by breaking them down into the four stages of an internal investigation: (1) launching an international investigation framework, (2) initial response to an allegation/suspicion, (3) interviewing witnesses and (4) communications, discipline and remedial measures.
What you can expect
- Launch an internal investigation framework for conducting internal investigations outside the U.S.
- Lead an internal investigation in workplace outside the U.S
- Respond to an allegation or suspicion of wrong doing arising outside the U.S.
- Interview witnesses outside the U.S.
- Discipline wrongdoers, implement remedial measures and communicate with employee populations after investigating an incident of wrongdoing outside the U.S.
Who should attend: Compliance officers and other compliance professionals at multinationals , In-house and law firm lawyers who conduct investigations internationally, Consultants in compliance, human resources, and litigation, Human resources professionals at multinationals, Privacy officers and other privacy professionals at multinationals, Internal auditors and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance professionals at multinationals, Risk and safety officers/managers at multinationals