Date & Time
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
   |   
8:00 am
PST
   |   Webinar

The myriad new laws related to workplace ethics are complex and challenging. Moreover, the new federal sentencing guidelines make clear that organizations can be found criminally and civilly liable for the ethical misdeeds of their employees -- even despite the organization’s best efforts to prevent wrongdoing in its ranks! Indeed, individual criminal liability may be imposed on an executive even if he or she did not know that corporate transgressions violated the law.

But there is good news! The sentencing guidelines and related statutes such as SOX establish detailed ethics and compliance guidelines by which the risk of corporate liability for ethical misdeeds can be substantially reduced. These standards apply to all organizations, not just publicly-traded companies, and require periodic training on workplace ethics and compliance. Now, by being proactive, taking preventive steps and complying with the guidelines established by these new laws, HR professionals, executives and managers can dramatically decrease the likelihood of being penalized for a corporate ethics violation.

This complimentary webinar will address some of the more serious challenges facing executives and decision-makers within modern organizations, such as: which corporate practices pose the greatest ethical risks; who is responsible for maintaining an ethical workplace; and, what are the best methods to ensure comprehensive ethical compliance?

In an engaging and informative presentation format, the Legal Learning Group will review the key laws driving an organization’s ethics compliance efforts and will set forth practical steps for achieving compliance accountability at the highest organizational levels.

Please join us to examine practical ways to untangle the new web of ethics laws and to learn innovative ways to avoid the hazards of civil and criminal liability that lurk within this developing legal tapestry.

Presented by Kathy C. Franklin, Esq., Shareholder and Kevin O'Neill,Esq., Manager of Content Development at Littler Mendelson, P.C.

 

Speakers

Kevin P. O'Neill

Principal | Senior Director, Littler Learning Group