Focus (Forum & Focus)
Feb. 20, 2009
A Global Whistle-Stop Tour
Global companies are often caught in a Catch 22 in situations where U.S. whistleblower laws conflict with local policies, writes Cynthia Jackson.
FOCUS COLUMN
By Cynthia Jackson Codes of conduct not only implicate corporate compliance obligations under U.S. law for U.S. multinationals, but also compliance, employment and data privacy laws in the local jurisdictions where subsidiary employees work. Because of fundamental legal differences among countries, a global company must decide whether it can tolerate some "regionalization" (multiple codes or at least different reporting schemes) to ad...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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