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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Law Firms Must Prioritize Hiring for Curiosity and Work Ethic in the AI Era

Best Era on 5/19/2025

In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, artificial intelligence is democratizing execution across the profession. As routine tasks become automated, the qualities that differentiate exceptional legal professionals are...more

Role of Leadership in Culture and Course Correcting

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 3/26/2024

When it comes to leadership, many people focus on qualities like decisiveness, communication skills, and strategic thinking. While these traits are undoubtedly important, there is another aspect of leadership that often gets...more

Candidates Lie. Here’s What You Can Do About it

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 12/6/2023

Picture this: you’re sitting across the table from a promising candidate during a job interview. Their resume is impressive, their answers seem well-rehearsed, and their enthusiasm is contagious. But deep down, you can’t help...more

HR and Compliance: Working Together to Hire Ethical Employees

The Volkov Law Group on 11/2/2017

Human resources and compliance professionals share many common objectives and interests. They need to coordinate and operationalize their joint interests in a variety of ways....more

CCO Leadership: Lessons from Kaiser Permanente

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/27/2017

One thing every Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) will face is multiple stakeholders. The more compliance is operationalized the more sensitized this issue will become. Yet the centralized control that many business leaders have...more

Modern Whistleblower Retaliation Risk Require a Modern Framework

NAVEX on 1/30/2017

If compliance officers ever needed one more sign about the importance of anti-retaliation programs, it arrived on September 29, 2016. On that day, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) fined a company that makes...more

Match Made in Heaven: Compliance and Human Resources

The Volkov Law Group on 9/29/2016

The corporate compliance function is only as successful as its partnerships with key internal constituencies. Depending on the company and the personnel involved, compliance has to establish and maintain effective working...more

Good Bye to Mr. Cub, the Siege of Vienna and Doing More Compliance with Less

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 1/26/2015

Let’s play two! That was perhaps the most famous maxim from Ernie Banks, who died this past weekend at the age of 83. As for a sobriquet, it does not get much better than being known as ‘Mr. Cub’ from any baseball fan from 9...more

Bringing It All Home, the Two Tough Cookies Wrap It Up For You, Part II

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 7/29/2014

This one is tough, especially in global organizations. In many countries, you simply cannot run a background check, as criminal records are not public. In others, you can run them, but the criminal offense must be related to...more

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