The U.S. Department of Labor assembled a digest of whistleblower law under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. On July 30, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, P.L. 107-204 was signed into law by President Bush. Section 806 of the Act, to be codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1514A, is a whistleblower provision that provides protection for employees … Read more »
Category: Whistleblower
Whistleblower Policies
I ran across a few examples of whistleblower policies and whistleblower protection policies and some material on developing a whistleblower policy. Developing a Policy Developing a Whistleblower Policy (.pdf) by the Delaware Valley Grantmakers. Whistleblower Policies: Lessons For Associations by Julia E. Judish of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP National Whistleblowers Center Whistleblower Policy Safeguards … Read more »
Code of Ethics and Whistleblower Programs
A corporate code of ethics is the flip side of the coin of a whistleblower policy: The code of ethics is the principal means of communicating to all staff a strong culture of legal compliance and ethical integrity, while the whistleblower policy is a way to implement such values. Read more »
Compliance at The Nature Conservancy
Back in 2004, The Nature Conservancy created the job of Chief Compliance Officer and formalized is compliance and governance policies. There is an interview with Karen Berky, Chief Compliance Officer in The Nature Conservancy’s 2004 Annual Report: Conservation That Works. Ms. Berky talks about the Conflict of Interest Policy and the Conflict of Interest Standard … Read more »