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Whistleblower Claims? Get HR Involved Early

Overview

  • Event Held On: 3/20/2012

Full Event Description

Significant corporate scandals usually start with one not-so-serious misdeed. Over time, those misdeeds combine and grow into a pattern and practice of corruption. Employees witness the conduct but sit idly by when early intervention would have prevented a calamity.

HR professional are accustomed to receiving workplace complaints. With legislation like Dodd-Frank that provides a bounty to employees who report certain types of misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the proliferation of whistleblower protections at the state and federal level, organizations should be planning and identifying ways to ensure that all types of misconduct are reported. Companies should be exploring methods of managing cases and incidents regardless of the source of the complaint or report.

In this webinar we will look at:

  • Basic cultural trends impacting the workplace
  • Retaliation claims and the changing laws protecting whistleblowers
  • The importance of spotting issues during HR-led investigations
  • Best practices for investigation and incident management

This course will help HR Executives, Directors, Managers, and Compliance professionals understand how cultural headwinds make it difficult for organizations to learn about misconduct in time to conduct an effective investigation and remediate breakdowns as they occur.

Speaker Biographies

Earl (Chip)  Jones III, Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Earl (Chip) Jones III
Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Chip’s experience comes from both private practice and a corporate senior executive position with a Fortune 200 company. His legal career includes managing labor and employment law matters and creating and managing ethics, compliance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, programs, and initiatives.

The combination of his litigation training and executive experience inside a large, publicly-traded company makes him uniquely qualified to identify solutions that will maximize value and reduce a client’s exposure and risk.

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