Principled Podcast – S9 E13 – Is Your Hotline Running Cold? How To Get Meaningful Data from Internal Reporting
Mia Reini and Monica Lopez Reinmiller on a Risk-Based Approach to Managing Employee Hotlines
Day 20 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-Staying Out of Hot Water in Other Jurisdictions
DAY 19 OF ONE MONTH TO BETTER INVESTIGATIONS AND REPORTING-SPECIFIC BENEFITS OF A HOTLINE
To build a robust ethical culture, ethics and compliance professionals need effective culture assessments to pinpoint vulnerabilities and proactively address them. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) update to the...more
Leveraging 40,000 anonymous ethics hotline reports and expansive customer interviews, Syntrio’s latest analysis uncovers trends in misconduct, reporting, and more...more
Welcome to this edition of the FP Snapshot on Manufacturing, where we take a quick look at a significant workplace law issues that can impact manufacturers. This edition will focus on workplace investigations and how...more
The option to report a workplace concern anonymously is a foundational part of a healthy ethics and compliance program. Aside from being required by law (depending on how your organization is structured and where you do...more
Rarely a day goes by without at least one report of workplace misconduct hitting the headlines globally. In a post-#MeToo era, there is an ever-increasing focus from society on how organizations respond to and deal with...more
Hotlines are an incredibly valuable tool for identifying compliance issues and many other problems. Every organization should have a system for people to report—either anonymously or with reporter identification....more
Get compliance strategies and insights for the higher education space - Whether you missed this year’s in-person Higher Education Compliance Conference or are looking for additional insights from your higher ed colleagues...more
What you’ll learn from this podcast episode: Do hotlines really work? According to the 2019 Global Business Survey conducted by the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, only 6% of E&C complaints went to hotlines, compared to...more
NAVEX Global always provides insightful and important whitepapers and annual reports. One of the more important annual reports is NAVEX’s Hotline and Incident Management Report. Given Navex’s important position in the...more
Takeaways - The Department of Justice has increased its focus on whether you have an “efficient and trusted mechanism by which employees can anonymously or confidentially report allegations….” Having a hotline that...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Kansas AG Kobach Files Lawsuit Alleging Energy Market...more
A bipartisan group of 36 AGs sent a letter to Congressional leaders requesting assistance in ensuring that tips received by the National Human Trafficking Hotline are forwarded to the appropriate state law enforcement...more
Compliance professionals regularly face various work-related challenges, yet the one shared most by everyone is timely access to accurate information. Such timely access is the key to compliance effectiveness mitigating the...more
In March 2022, New York amended the New York State Human Rights Law (the “NYSHRL”) to require the New York State Division of Human Rights (“Division”) to establish a statewide, toll-free confidential hotline to provide...more
On July 19, 2022, the New York State Division of Human Rights (NYSDHR) launched a confidential hotline at 1-800-HARASS-3 to field complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace and provide legal assistance to New York...more
On July 19, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the launch of a statewide confidential hotline for complaints of workplace sexual harassment. The hotline was provided under Senate Bill No. S812B, which Governor...more
In early 2022, New York State entered S.812B/A.2035B into law, which amended the New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Executive Law § 296, to require a statewide toll-free, confidential hotline (the “Hotline”) for the...more
New York State has launched two statewide, toll-free “hotlines” that aggrieved individuals can use to confidentially report workplace issues. The first hotline, which addresses sexual harassment, was announced on July 19...more
Employers should be aware that New York state has passed a law that requires employers to reference an established hotline in any material - including handbooks, policies and workplace postings - they post or provide to...more
Federal officials have launched a new 988 number for callers with suicidal thoughts or other mental health emergencies, hoping that the public adopts this three-digit alternative and finds it as familiar and useful as 911 has...more
On July 19, 2022, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced the launch of the state’s confidential hotline for complaints of workplace sexual harassment. As we previously reported, S812A (enacted in March 2022)...more
In March of 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation directing the New York State Division of Human Rights (“DHR”) to establish a toll-free confidential hotline designed to provide counsel and assistance to...more
Governor Hochul just announced the launch of a toll-free confidential hotline for individuals to make complaints and seek advice regarding workplace sexual harassment. As discussed in our previous advisory (which can be found...more
On July 19, 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the launch of a statewide hotline for employees who believe they have been sexually harassed in the workplace. This announcement follows several pieces of legislation passed in...more
Earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law S.812B/A.2035B, which amended the New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Exec. Law § 296, to require the establishment of a state-wide, toll-free, confidential hotline...more