The companies have a need to provide a means for people to report wrongdoing - and protect those who make such reports. For smaller employers, developing a whistleblower program can be a big job. For companies that employ internal auditors, they are on the front lines of the issue -...
Discrimination and harassment are costly to an organization – and to each person in it – so the focus must always be the prevention of risk and wrongdoing. However, once a problem arises, an organization must act with no tolerance for such wrongdoing, maintaining proactive observation and communication along with...
The UK financial regulator and the oil futures exchanges have mounted a robust defence of their controls in front of a government committee, and rejected claims that speculators were behind the soaring price of oil. Yesterday marked the first meeting of the Treasury Select Committee called last...
SEOUL AFP — Former Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-Hee was given a suspended prison sentence Wednesday for tax evasion, but a South Korean court cleared him of the more serious charge of breach of trust. Lee, who quit the nation's biggest business group in April following a corruption...
THEN THERE WERE TWO Blackett's findings fail to show how prohibitions can be enforced The crime was not so much in going on a pub crawl and meeting members of the opposite sex as getting caught; the punishment was light to negligible. His...
Nats officials in hot water? Washington general manager Jim Bowden rebutted an ESPN.com report that he and special assistant Jose Rijo were being investigated in a probe examining an alleged scam involving the skimming of signing bonuses for prospects from the Dominican Republic. "There's no wrongdoing," Bowden said Friday night....
Italian prosecutors have asked a judge to charge with murder three suspects held over the killing of the British student Meredith Kercher. Ms Kercher, 21, a Leeds University student from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found dead in her bedroom in Perugia on 3 November last year. ...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to settle its outstanding antitrust litigation with Ortho Biotech Products L.P. Ortho Biotech. Ortho Biotech, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), had alleged that discounts offered to oncology clinics on Amgen's Neupogen and Neulasta...
It was attorney Johnnie Cochran, during the O.J. Simpson trial, who coined the phrase "rush to judgment." Since then, dozens of other defense attorneys have used the line to try to slow down the condemnation of their clients. It has proved to be a good ploy --...
Company denies any wrongdoing NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Louisiana-Pacific Corporation LP (NYSE:LPX) announced today that it has reached settlement agreements in the OSB antitrust litigation in order to limit the risks and costs associated with at least two lengthy jury trials. LP has vigorously contested the plaintiffs' allegations and...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli police said on Tuesday they will question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert again this week over a corruption scandal that has rocked his government and which could lead to early elections. Anti-fraud squad officers will question Olmert on Friday for the third time over suspicions...
:: CRIMINAL RECORDS Hundreds of applicants for jobs in teaching, nursing and voluntary work have been falsely accused of wrongdoing by the Criminal Records Bureau, it was claimed yesterday. The government agency, set up to protect children, was said to be plagued by delays and mistakes as...
RUGBY UNION The woman at the centre of a sexual assault allegation made against four members of the England team does not plan to make a formal complaint to the New Zealand police. In a letter to the Rugby Football Union, the woman's solicitors,...
The woman at the centre of a sexual assault allegation made against four members of the England team does not plan to make a formal complaint to the New Zealand police. In a letter to the Rugby Football Union, the woman's solicitors, Chapman Tripp, also state she...
*RUGBY UNION The woman at the centre of a sexual assault allegation made against four members of the England team does not plan to make a formal complaint to the New Zealand police. In a letter to the Rugby Football Union, the woman's solicitors,...
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly...
YAVNE, Israel, July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (the "Company" or "Willi Food"), one of Israel's largest food importers and a single-source supplier of one of the world's most extensive range of quality kosher food products, today announced that it had signed a Settlement Agreement pertaining...
PARIS AFP — The German former chief executive of Airbus, Gustav Humbert, was charged Wednesday with insider trading at the planemaker's parent company EADS, a legal source said. Humbert, 58, was released on bail of 350,000 euros (555,000 dollars) after having been charged by Judges Xaviere Simeoni and...
PARIS AFP — The former German chief executive of aircraft manufacturer Airbus, Gustav Humbert, will he held for questioning for another 24 hours in connection with alleged insider trading at Airbus parent EADS, a source close to the probe said Tuesday. Humbert was detained for questioning Monday by...
EUGENE, Oregon AFP — This is the sound of track and field's heart breaking, shattered by years of lies and doping scandals. There is no evidence to suggest doping or reason to suspect wrongdoing by Tyson Gay, who won a spectacular wind-aided 9.68-second 100-meter victory at the US...
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