Upping Your Game: Episode 1 – Meeting Hui Chen’s Challenge
SBR – Author’s Podcast: Understanding Complexity with Dr. Jean Boulton, Part 1: Ethics, Compliance, and Organizational Dynamics
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring the Fractional COO Model with La Tonya Roberts
Daily Compliance News: April 29, 2025, The GenZ/RTO Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – A Study in Scarlet, Introduction to Compliance Lessons
FCPA Compliance Report: From Compliance to Commercial Value: Removing Friction with AI
Compliance Tip Of the Day: Using AI to Transform Whistleblower Response
Because That’s What Heroes Do: Deep Space 9 – Episode 30: Deep Trek Themes from Tacking into the Wind
Compliance Tip of the Day: The Future of Continuous Monitoring
FCPA Compliance Report: Ellen Hunt on Compliance ROI and on a Due Diligence and the US Sentencing Guidelines
Compliance and AI: Transforming Compliance Through AI with Marcelo Erthal
Breaking Down the Shifting Vaccine Policy Landscape – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Leveraging AI for Real-Time Third-Party Risk Management
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
Innovation in Compliance: Design-Centric Compliance Training with Karen Oddo
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI and Predictive Analytics
FCPA Compliance Report: Kristy Grant-Hart on A 360° Review of the Future of Compliance
Great Women in Compliance: Creating Space to Speak Up: The Story Behind Psst.org
Daily Compliance News: April 23, 2025, The R-E-S-P-E-C-T Edition
Aligning Business Goals with Legal Strategies Amid Regulatory Change – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Employers bear the responsibility of preventing and correcting harassment in the workplace. While the line between on and off duty conduct has never been crystal clear, in today’s hyper-connected world of social media, the...more
Over the past few months, I dove headfirst into another show that had a long, successful run that I completely missed: Modern Family. Modern Family is a comedy about a large extended family living in Los Angeles, California....more
Back in 2021, survey data from the Society for Human Resource Management reflected that nearly 58 percent of U.S. employers voluntarily conducted pay audits. ...more
One of the more attention-grabbing aspects of Executive Order (“EO”) 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” is the specter of False Claims Act (“FCA”) liability for federal contractors...more
The federal government does not have legal authority to prohibit private-sector businesses from engaging in lawful Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility practices, or mandate their removal. On January 21, 2025,...more
Last year, many of our clients began asking us about the feasibility of requiring or, at the very least, providing their employees with the option of using “wearable technology” in the workplace. As wearable technologies...more
Ready or not, artificial intelligence (“AI”) is here, and even if your company hasn’t introduced or approved the use of AI, chances are your employees are already using it....more
In the August edition of our Public Company Watch, we cover key issues impacting public companies, including the SEC’s enhanced disclosure requirements regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard Coll., No. 20-1199, 600 U.S. – (U.S. June 29, 2023) has opened the door to future legal challenges against DE&I...more
Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have captured significant media attention. Developers argue that the technology, which learns from data to produce new text, visual, or audio content based on a...more
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other anti-discrimination statutes require employers to avoid discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and other improper classifications. The United States Supreme Court has...more
Our one-day Regional Compliance and Ethics Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a statement yesterday reminding schools, colleges, and universities of their responsibilities to address discrimination and harassment based on race and...more
As the evolving coronavirus virus (COVID-19) first discovered in China continues to grow in both China and other countries including the United States, businesses here need to consider a number of factors in preparing a...more
Workplace romances are inevitable. According to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, one out of every three American adults is or has previously been in a workplace romance. Given this reality,...more
Today social media platforms, including Facebook and LinkedIn, allow employers to target their job listings based on various characteristics of the users they wish to reach. As a result, employers can theoretically identify...more
As the end of the year approaches, many employers are preparing for the annual office holiday party. This occasion presents an opportunity for employers to express appreciation for the hard work performed by staff all year....more
The last week of October can result in “double, double toil, and trouble” for employers. While workplace Halloween festivities may boost employee morale, they can also result in employer liability for discrimination and...more
Under Title VII, employers are vicariously liable for incidents of sexual harassment engaged in by supervisors. In its Faragher and Ellerth decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged a limited defense to claims of...more
Many employers offer paid parental leave policies to employees, affording new parents paid time off to care for a new child. Though some employers offer paid parental leave to both new mothers and fathers of equal length,...more
The New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR) released enforcement guidance on Monday, February 18, 2019, defining discrimination based on natural hair and hairstyles as a subset of race discrimination....more
In February 2019, the New York Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”) issued guidance regarding employment discrimination based upon natural hair or hairstyles. ...more
As 2018 draws to a close, it is worth taking a closer look at the increasing legal impact of the #MeToo movement. The chorus of victims’ voices and the media spotlight exposed the prevalence of sexual misconduct in the...more
In this three-part series, we are exploring best practices for handling a charge of discrimination. The first part of the series addressed important preliminary questions you should be asking upon initial receipt of the...more
Sexual harassment can affect your workplace in many significant ways—for example, by lowering morale, increasing absenteeism and turnover, and decreasing productivity. But those consequences are often difficult to measure and...more