The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which became law in 1990. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, building on the language and framework of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make disability status a protected class in the United ...
In the following interview, Natalia Shehadeh, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at TechnipFMC spoke to Ethisphere's Leslie Benton about the company's case handling and resolution across four government authorities. Natalia Shehadeh is the Chief Compliance Officer for TechnipFMC. Natalia joins TechnipFMC from Weatherford, a global oil ...
Baker McKenzie partners Peter Tomczak and William "Widge" Devaney both have extensive experience in corporate anti-corruption matters, and often interface with boards on compliance related topics. As such, they've seen how ESG concerns have trickled up to the board, and how overlaps with anti-corruption mean ethics and compliance professionals in particular are well-suited to ...
Henrique Barcelos works in the family business, a technology solution provider called LTA-RH based out of the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Many members of Henrique’s family play a role in its operations, and the company sells almost exclusively to the public sector in a country recently notorious for corruption investigations. While it ...
Chicago-based financial services firm Northern Trust has three values at the core of its operations: service, expertise, and integrity. These values serve the firm well in its role as both a publicly traded company trying to walk the walk on ESG issues and as an investor trying to hold other companies to those same ...
Following a year that saw VF Corporation streamline its portfolio of brands and move its headquarters, Ethisphere Magazine took the chance to ask a few questions to the company’s General Counsel Laura Meagher about leading the legal function through these shifts. In this conversation, she discusses preserving culture, new regulations and cross-company collaboration at ...
When it comes to compliance issues and trends, organizations are expected to keep abreast of the latest regulations and monitor their own activities to stay compliant. However, changes and uncertainties in the market are adding further pressure on the compliance efforts of organizations, making it more and more challenging to simply maintain the status ...
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health insurance provider in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, is a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance and a seven-time World’s Most Ethical Companies® honoree. CareFirst’s President and CEO, Brian D. Pieninck, is particularly engaged with matters of ethics and compliance—a trait not common among chief ...
If you read a certain genre of business journalism, you might be forgiven for thinking that the most important factors governing your happiness as an employee revolve around amenities. Does this office have nap pods? How many different kinds of non-dairy milk are the break rooms stocked with? Can I bring my corgi to ...
When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, five members of the Intel Employee Service Corps—our flagship skills-based volunteer program—ventured to the island’s Mayagüez region, determined to help. They visited 161 schools in just nine days to assess the impact of the worst natural disaster in the US territory’s recorded history. After developing an assistance ...
