Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. Last week we considered the SEC regulations requiring companies to detail human capital issues in their annual reports and what it meant for compliance. This led to a week-long dialogue between Matt and myself about the current state of employee trust and its role in corporate culture and a best practices compliance and ethics program. Some of the issues we consider are:

• Trust is down.
• The now former UK KPMG Chairman who told employees to ‘quit whining’ about the Coronavirus health crisis issue.
• Employees are under more pressure to deliver results. What does this do to trust?
• Employee to employee trust issues in WFH.
• Trust issues around RTW, both employee to employee and management response to employee health and safety issues at the workplace.
• Benjamin Moore getting rid of legal department and then restricting employee access to legal assistance.
• Greater fear toward retaliation stopping whistleblowers from coming forward. 

Resources
Matt’s blog post in Radical Compliance:
Corporate Culture and Human Capital Disclosures 
Tom’s blog posts on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog:
A Macro Approach for Human Capital Compliance
Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain and Employee Trust
How to Destroy Employee Trust
Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln