Menu6/24/16: “Tired of hearing constant complaints that everyone hates compliance training?” That’s the question posed by Joel Rogers on the Compliance Communications blog. In answer, Rogers offers the example of The Generali Group, a-company headquartered in Italy and operations in more than 60 countries. As part of his responsibility as Head of Business Integrity and Group Compliance, Martin Callaghan took on the challenge of
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Jun 24, 2016 •
6/24/16: It’s been said that trends across the nation begin in California. Now, according to a post by Jon Siders in Legal News & Compliance on the TriNet blog, new provisions of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) could “… usher in a wave of tightened discrimination laws around the nation.” It’s worth understanding the new FEHA regulations, which apply to California-based employers with five or more employees, but Siders’ explanation of the regulations gives non-California businesses a heads-up about what may be coming down the road.
Jun 08, 2016 •
Perhaps the most disturbing conversation I heard this year went as follows:
Me: “So what interaction do you have with your E&C team?”
Big cheese at Fortune 100 company: “Once a year I get an email from them listing who has not done their annual Code training.”
Me: “Ok”
Ok maybe not the most disturbing – I have two teenage children, but right up there.
Jun 07, 2016 •
Tired of hearing constant complaints that everyone hates compliance training? This doesn’t have to be confined to a single, dull event that staff members dread. There are compliance professionals around the world who are supplementing annual training efforts with bite-size chunks of multi-channel, multi-modal communication for more effective results.
Martin Callaghan from The Generali Group is one of them. Responsible for overcoming one of the largest problems faced by compliance professionals, Martin must enable the company to engage many employees across numerous regions in order to ensure global compliance. The Generali Group, which is headquartered in Italy and has operations in over 60 countries, has successfully met this challenge with Compliance Wave’s communication tools.
This is Martin’s story.
Jun 03, 2016 •
6/3/16: Only slightly less comfortable than accusing someone of fraud is asking key members of management about their organizational fraud risk assessments. Yet, notwithstanding the potential discomfort, auditors are faced with doing just that if they plan to conduct effective audits of a company’s organization risk for fraud and corruption. In an article by Pamela W. Baker, CPA, CGFM, (Barbacane, Thornton & Company LLP) published on the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ website, the issue of “fraud interviewing” is tackled head on. In a short article packed with information primarily for CPAs doing independent audits, Baker gives corporate compliance professionals a heads-up about
