Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – March 2018 In 2004, the U.S. Sentencing Commission amended the compliance program standards to make one of its most important improvements: It required companies to “evaluate periodically…

Joseph Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – February 2018 The Antitrust Division makes a point of this: no existing compliance program is considered for any purpose. This is a one-size-fits-all policy: no matter how…

Henry Cutter – The Wall Street Journal – January 23, 2018 Fewer than one in five companies give compliance staff substantive roles in handling major mergers, and more than half have unresolved compliance problems that…

Joe Murphy – The Wall Street Journal – January 9, 2018 A memo from the Trump-appointed general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board suggests the agency may take a new approach to issues related…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – January 2018 It’s big news in the employment field: According to some studies, having a policy and mandatory training doesn’t prevent harassment. So when California mandates two…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – December 2017 An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the growing role of contract employees in companies. While exact figures are uncertain, the percentages…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – October 2017 One question that sometimes comes up, especially regarding new employees or those who are newly promoted, is when do they need to be trained? How…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – August 2017 Practitioners today know that they need to measure and assess their compliance programs. Often, though, they seem to go inexorably to surveys as the tool for…

Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – July 2017 Every day, it seems, we read about another major company facing criminal charges or committing other types of improper actions. We hear about large fines,…