Compliance Communications Blog

 

What Comes Next as the Country Considers Reopening?

6/1/20: Businesses and individuals are grappling with questions of what comes next as the country does or considers reopening. Return to work? Open the office? Continue the furlough? Redesign the workplace? Check on the social distancing and the use of masks when employees aren’t at work?..

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Crossing the Line of Verifying Work Authorization

6/1/20: What are the rules for verifying an employment applicant’s immigration status and work authorization? Short answer: not the policy and procedures followed by Randstadt North America Inc, a global staffing company...

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Anti-Corruption Expectations and Enforcement During COVID

6/1/20: An article by Law firm K&L Gates LLP published on the JDSUPRA website gives a review of senior federal law enforcement officials’ comments at the American Conference Institute’s Anti-Corruption Global Series The officials spoke explained their agencies’ operations under the weight of the global pandemic and their expectations for companies dealing with economic impacts of COVID-19...

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Which Risk is Worse for Older Workers?

6/1/20: Erin Mulvaney's article posted on Bloomberg Law questions which choice older workers fear most: returning to work while COVID-19 remains a risk or refusing to go back to work and running the risk of retaliation? On one hand, older people are the most vulnerable population for contracting the virus so the concern is reasonable...

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Growing Risks of International Corruption and Crime

5/18/20: It’s no surprise that a time of chaos is likely to draw out bad behavior.  An article released by law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP goes beyond US borders to ask how COVID-19 is affecting international corruption and financial crime.  According to the authors, the pandemic is heightening risks to business on multiple fronts, from insider trading and price-gouging to international corruption and financial crime...

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