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Be Ethical And You Can Pay Your Employees Less

Posted on July 22, 2008
According to a new joint study from Stanford University and the University of California Santa Barbara, 97 percent of recent MBA grads are willing to chop $15,000 a year off their starting salary if their company practices good CSR. According to BusinessGreen...

High-Profile Chinese Insider Trading Trial Begins

Posted on July 22, 2008
Saturday marked the commencement of a trial in Southern China for the former president of Guangfa Securities, China’s sixth largest stock brokerage firm, over allegations of insider trading that began in 2006. At that time, Chinese authorities accused Dong Zhengqing of tipping off a reverse merger between Guangfa Securities and Yan Bian Road Ltd...

30 Months in Prison for Spamming Over One Million AOL Users

Posted on July 16, 2008
The sentence came in yesterday for a New York man who plead guilty to sending spam email messages to over 1.2 million AOL users in a way that avoided being noticed by the company’s spam filter. The messages were used by Adam Vitale, 27, to try and sell a computer security program in return [...

Man Earns Nearly $47 Million for NOT Firing Employees

Posted on July 14, 2008
An Ohio jury awarded $46.7 million to a former general manager of Republic Services, a waste collection company, after it found he was wrongfully fired. Ronald Luri was asked to fire three employees, all over the age of 60, and he refused, arguing that doing so would constitute age discrimination...

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Anti-Corruption Officials Discovered Taking Bribes

Posted on July 09, 2008
Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission reported yesterday that it uncovered a number of its own officials taking bribes while on the job, where they were supposed to try and curb bribery themselves. The Commission says it will “take action” against the 28 officials, including sending 11 of them to court, according to a report published on [...

McKesson Faces $15 Billion Racketeering Lawsuit

Posted on June 25, 2008
Bad news came to McKesson Corp. yesterday in the form of a ruling by U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris. Judge Saris certified a number of 2005 suits by the New England Carpenters Health Benefits Fund as class action, and allowed them to

Transparency International Names Worst Fighters of Corruption

Posted on June 24, 2008
A new report released today in Berlin by Transparency International (TI) ranks 34 countries in regard to their overall corruption-fighting efforts, with some surprising results. The bottom four? Britain, Italy, Japan and Canada. According to TI, the four countries had “practically no investigations or extremely

U.S. Shareholders Enter EADS Fray

Posted on June 18, 2008
Last year, we wrote about insider trading allegations against a number of current and former European Aeronautic Defense & Space (EADS) executives. This has been a huge issue in Europe for quite some time, as EADS is one of the largest defense contractors in the world and the parent of Airbus...

Internet Service Providers Will Block Child Pornography Material

Posted on June 12, 2008
Three of the largest internet service providers agreed on Wednesday to block child pornography newsgroups and other related materials from their servers, according to a report by the Associated Press. The three companies

U.S. Supreme Court Restricts Whistleblower Protections

Posted on June 10, 2008
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday unanimously in favor of restricting the whistleblower provisions of the U.S. False Claims Act. Now, the Court ruled, a whistleblower needs to prove that there was more than just a false statement involved in any sort of government fund or contract...

Oregon Wants a Cut of Adidas? Award

Posted on June 06, 2008
In 2005, Adidas AG sued Collective Brands, Inc., parent company of Payless ShoeSource, for selling shoes that have a triple-striped design similar to that of Adidas’ products. In early May, a federal jury in Oregon awarded Adidas nearly

Global Compliance: United Arab Emirates

Posted on June 04, 2008
If you?ve heard anything of booming global markets in the past few years, chances are that there has been some mention of the United Arab Emirates. This young nation comprised of seven Arabian states has experienced tremendous growth since its founding in 1971, in large part due to abundant natural resources, moderate foreign policy and [...

Indian Retailer Boycotts Cadbury Products for Alleged Price Discrimination

Posted on June 04, 2008
Cadbury products will no longer be sold by India’s largest retailer, Future Group, as Future’s chief executive Kishore Biyani has accused the nation’s largest chocolate manufacturer of price discrimination. He has accused Cadbury of cutting

Ethisphere?s ?Driving Profit Through Ethical Leadership? Conference Underway, Interviews on CNBC

Posted on June 03, 2008
The ‘Driving Profit Through Ethical Leadership’ conference, which officially kicked off this morning in New York City’s Rainbow Room, has garnered some significant attention. You can take a look at CNBC’s interviews of PepsiCo America’s CEO John Compton and a nearly 15-minute interview with Steve Forbes

Anticlimactic Ending for News Corp Hacker Case

Posted on May 21, 2008
What started off as a media dream story (with the words “Rupert Murdoch,” “employs” and “hacker” all in the same headline) ended on a very anticlimactic, and somewhat humorous, note. Readers might remember the DISH Network lawsuit that hoped to receive nearly $1 billion in damages from

More of Johnson & Johnson?s Case Against the American Red Cross is Thrown Out

Posted on May 21, 2008
Last year, J&J sued the American Red Cross, alleging that the humanitarian organization unlawfully licensed its famous logo to companies that directly compete with J&J (we blogged about it here). Last week, a federal judge threw out the majority of

Willbros Group Settles FCPA Allegations

Posted on May 19, 2008
Willbros Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, Willbros International, agreed to pay $32.3 million in a settlement with the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations of FCPA violations. Of that

Weyerhaeuser Loses Antitrust Suit, Ordered to Pay $28 Million

Posted on May 02, 2008
A Portland jury awarded plaintiffs $28 million today in a now four-year-old class-action antitrust lawsuit against North American lumber company Weyerhaeuser. The jury said that the company violated antitrust laws through high prices and buying unnecessary amounts of lumber to prevent their competition from getting

Boeing and Airbus Work to Improve Airline Industry CO2 Levels

Posted on April 30, 2008
Though the two transatlantic rivals may be bitterly fighting for the rights to a U.S. government contract, Boeing and Airbus do see eye-to-eye on one critical issue: cutting the carbon dioxide emissions from their planes. Both companies are aggressively working towards developing

News Corp Subsidiary Allegedly Hired Hacker to Develop Piracy Software

Posted on April 28, 2008
EchoStar Communications, the parent company of DISH Network, filed a corporate espionage lawsuit against News Corp’s NDS Group, alleging that the firm hired one of the “two best hackers in the world” to hack into DISH’s satellite network and steal the company’s security codes, according to a report by Reuters...

New Deloitte Poll Finds Under a Third of Companies are Increasing FCPA Controls

Posted on April 23, 2008
FCPA investigations are a dime a dozen these days, but a new Deloitte poll shows that most companies don’t seem to be reacting. The study found that only 32 percent of respondents to the Deloitte online poll acknowledged that they were stepping up their internal FCPA controls to

Government Closes Loopholes in FAR Regulations

Posted on April 21, 2008
A new bill that will further regulate the federal acquisition process, called The Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act, was approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week, according to a report by Federal Computer Week, and is now

Alleged Stripper Price-Fixing in the Land Down Under

Posted on April 17, 2008
More proof that price-fixing can take place in any industry: the owner of Adult Fire, an Australian company that puts on various X-rated strip shows for men and women, sued two of its Sydney rivals, Bombshells and Sex Bomb Promotions, for price-fixing...

Oilman Sues BP and Others Over Alleged FCPA Violations

Posted on April 16, 2008
The CEO of Denver-based Grynberg Productions is trying a new strategy to escape possible FCPA violations: suing a bunch of his rivals. This month Jack Grynberg, the eponymous chairman of the oil company, sued British oil company BP, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, Former BP Chief Executive John Browne, Norway’s Statoil and others, accusing [...

South Africa Cracks Down on Possible Food Industry Cartel

Posted on April 09, 2008
The South African Competition Commission decided that there have been so many reports of price fixing involving producers of bread, milk and other food items that they’re just going to go ahead and probe the entire South African food industry, according to a report by sabcnews...

Tesco Sues Thai Dissenters for Speaking Out Against Its Expansion in Thailand

Posted on April 08, 2008
A Thai Member of Parliament (MP) and a newspaper critic face millions of dollars in damages and significant prison time after being sued for libel by Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, according to a story by the Guardian Newspaper. Both were sued for saying that Tesco, known as Tesco Lotus in Thailand, is expanding [...

Jury Awards Ex-Kelly Employee $6.5 Million for Religious Discrimination

Posted on April 07, 2008
A former Kelly Services employee, Lynn Noyes, was awarded $6.5 million by a Sacramento federal jury on Friday after suing the company for reverse religious discrimination. She argued that a less qualified employee earned the manager position that she was seeking because he was a member of

Naturalized U.S. Citizen Caught Allegedly Attempting to Give Trade Secrets to China

Posted on April 04, 2008
Who says random airport searches don’t work? United States customs officials discovered that Hanjuan Jin, 37, a China-born U.S. citizen, was allegedly trying to leak confidential trade secrets from her former U.S. employer to a China-based rival when they searched her luggage at

IBM Banned From New Government Contract Work

Posted on April 02, 2008
Two weeks ago, in the last edition of Ethisphere Magazine we rated and ranked the ethics programs of some of the largest U.S. government contractors. IBM was on the lower end of the rankings with a score of just over 50 (below standard). And guess what? Yesterday the company was temporarily banned [...

UK Employees Now Protected From Customer Sexual Harassment

Posted on April 01, 2008
A new law in the United Kingdom will protect employees from sexual harassment beyond just coworkers and bosses, now extending to “customers, suppliers and others they encounter in the course of their work,” according to a story in the UK’s Guardian...

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