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Compliance Man Chooses the Target

Compliance Man Takes a EuroTrip – Geert Vermeulen on EU Whistleblower Directive

Compliance Man is back for a new season! Get ready for a EuroTrip with Tom Fox and Tim Khasanov-Batirov on their hit podcast, Compliance Man! In this episode, Compliance Man podcast hosts, Tom Fox, and Tim Khasanov-Batirov, speak with a compliance professional and founder of the Integrity Coordinator, Geert Vermeulen, about the challenges of implementing effective whistleblower policies in Europe. They discuss cultural differences, strict requirements on external whistleblowing, and the burden of proof on companies to show that retaliation did not occur. The speakers emphasize the importance of understanding cultural differences and developing precise policies to promote a speak-up culture. The conversation ends with a reflection on the evolution of whistleblower procedures in Europe and thoughts on where things might be headed in the future. This is a must-listen podcast for anyone interested in compliance and corporate culture.

Vermeulen highlights the challenge of implementing the directives into the national laws of member states, which has resulted in differences between states. Each state has its own specifications about what can be reported and what must not be reported. For instance, every state has different rules regarding protection against retaliation.

Here are some tips to help cope with this challenge:

1. Get familiarized with the national laws of the member states where your organization operates.

2. Set up a streamlined procedure and ensure that all employees are aware of the internal complaints and whistleblowing process.

3. Ensure that your whistleblowing process is confidential and that whistleblowers are protected against retaliation. 

Key Highlights

·      Lack of tradition of whistleblowing in Europe

·      Whistleblowing in emerging markets

·      One worldwide whistleblowing program?

·      Whistleblower protection and communication

·      Interplay of EU Whistleblower Directive and GDPR

·      The evolution of whistleblowing in Europe

 Resources

Geert Vermeulen on LinkedIn

The Integrity Coordinator

Tim Khasanov-Batirov on LinkedIn

Tom Fox

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Compliance Week Conference Podcast

Mary Inman on How Global Companies Are Responding to the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive

In this episode of the Compliance Week 2022 Preview Podcasts series, Mary will discuss some of her presentation at Compliance Week 2022 “How Global Companies Are Responding to the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive”. Some of the issues she will discuss in this podcast and her presentation are:

  • Understand how to comply with both the EU Whistleblower Directive and GDPR requirements around call recordings, interview notes, records, and whistleblower rights to privacy
  • Learn how to run a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA)
  • Discover where requirements between the EU Whistleblower Directive and data privacy regulations conflict with each other

In this first full compliance conference in over 2 years, I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2022. This year’s event will be May 16-18 at the JW Marriott in Washington DC. The line-up of this year’s event is simply first rate with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 17th year, compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. and many others to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 75+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from the two SEC Commissioners and gain insights into the agency’s areas of enforcement and walk away with guidance on how to remain compliant within emerging areas such as ESG disclosure, third-party risk management, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and more.
  • Bring actionable takeaways back to your program from various session types including ESG, Human Trafficking, Board obligations and many others for you to listen, learn and share.
  • The goal of Compliance Week is to arm you with information, strategy and tactics to transform your organization and your career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount off the registration price. Enter discount code discount code TFLAW $200 OFF.

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Compliance Week Conference Podcast

Tom Fox on Why You Should Attend Compliance Week 2022

In this episode of the Compliance Week 2022 Preview Podcasts series, I discuss some of my presentation at Compliance Week 2022 “EU Whistleblower Protections and Responses”. Some of the issues we tackle in this podcast are:

  • Understand how to comply with both the EU Whistleblower Directive and GDPR requirements around call recordings, interview notes, records, and whistleblower rights to privacy
  • Learn how to run a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA)
  • Discover where requirements between the EU Whistleblower Directive and data privacy regulations conflict with each other

In this first full compliance conference in over 2 years, I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2022. This year’s event will be May 16-18 at the JW Marriott in Washington DC. The line-up of this year’s event is simply first rate with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 17th year, compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. and many others to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 75+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from the two SEC Commissioners and gain insights into the agency’s areas of enforcement and walk away with guidance on how to remain compliant within emerging areas such as ESG disclosure, third-party risk management, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and more.
  • Bring actionable takeaways back to your program from various session types including ESG, Human Trafficking, Board obligations and many others for you to listen, learn and share.
  • The goal of Compliance Week is to arm you with information, strategy and tactics to transform your organization and your career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount off the registration price. Enter discount code discount code TFLAW $200 OFF.

Compliance Week 2022 podcast series is a production of Compliance Week, which is the sponsor of this podcast series.

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Great Women in Compliance

Jonathan Armstrong – Original Gangster Great Gentleman in Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.

Welcome to the first Great Women In Compliance episode for 2022. Lisa and Mary are really excited about starting off another year of connecting, communicating and celebrating our GWIC family.

While Mary and Lisa usually start out each quarter with a joint discussion, this time they do a joint interview with a guest who was there when this podcast was born. Jonathan Armstrong is a strong supporter of women in compliance, diversity, and is an expert in GDPR, Brexit, and many other multinational issues, as well as a partner at Cordery Compliance, and is based in the UK. He is also on the Compliance Podcast Network as a co-host of the “Everything Compliance” and “Life with GDPR” podcasts.

 In this episode, we talk about what he thinks should be top of mind for E&C professionals in multinational organizations, how Brexit has impacted compliance programs, and what is new in the world of GDPR and data privacy.

Jonathan is also known for his ability to connect and build relationships. and talks about how he builds his network and his approach. Lisa and Mary like to think that one of the highlights of Jonathan’s career is that he won the GWICie for Comic Relief, and not only will you understand why after listening to this episode.

As always, we are so grateful for all of your support and if you have any feedback or suggestions for our line up or would just like to reach out and say hello, we always welcome hearing from our listeners. If you are enjoying this episode, please rate it on your preferred podcast player to help other likeminded Ethics and Compliance professionals find it.  You can also find the GWIC podcast on Corporate Compliance Insights where Lisa and Mary have a landing page with additional information about them and the story of the podcast.

You can subscribe to the Great Women in Compliance podcast on any podcast player by searching for it and we welcome new subscribers to our podcast.

Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.

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Life with GDPR

EU Whistleblower Directive-Part 2


Jonathan Armstrong is on assignment in Cornwall so for this episode Cordery Compliance co-founder Andre Bywater joins Tom Fox to discuss issues relating to the upcoming EU Whistleblower Directive, with a go live date of December 17. This is Part 2 of a special 2-part episode. Some of the questions we consider include:

  1. What about whistleblowing and data protection issues?
  2. Are individuals subject to whistleblowing allegations also protected?
  3. Subject Access Requests.
  4. False whistleblowing.
  5. Sanctions for non-compliance.
  6. Bounties for whistleblowing.
  7. When must the EU whistleblowing rules be implemented?
  8. Post-Brexit, how will the UK be implementing these rules?
  9. What are Andre’s three takeaways?

Resources
Check out the Cordery Compliance, client alert on this topic, click here. For more information on Cordery Compliance, go their website here. Also check out the GDPR Navigator, one of the top resources for GDPR Compliance by clicking here.

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Life with GDPR

EU Whistleblower Directive-Part 1

Jonathan Armstrong is on assignment in Cornwall so for this episode Cordery Compliance co-founder Andre Bywater joins Tom Fox to discuss the upcoming EU Whistleblower Directive go live date of December 17. This is Part 1 of a special 2-part episode. Some of the questions we consider include:

1.     Why is the EU tackling whistleblowing & what EU areas fall in scope?

2.     Who can be a whistleblower?

3.     What about anonymity and confidentiality?

4.     Which whistleblowing route should a whistleblower follow?

5.     Are there any record-keeping obligations?

6.     Is retaliation prohibited?

Resources

Check out the Cordery Compliance, client alert on this topic, click here. For more information on Cordery Compliance, go their website here. Also check out the GDPR Navigator, one of the top resources for GDPR Compliance by clicking here.