Sentences with phrase «ethics hotline»

David Kohlenberg, deputy general counsel, corporate development and finance law with TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., speaking on an ACC panel in Denver about Canadian securities regulations, noted many companies have invested in code of ethics hotlines for employees to use, but what else can be done internally to get people to report to them first?

``... we ask that if you have questions, ask them; if you have ethical concerns, raise them; if you believe something to be suspicious or inconsistent with the Company's best interests, report it to the General Counsel...» [or to contact the company's outside ethics hotline provider].

In many cases, ethics hotlines do not offer the in - depth information a lawyer would want, while hiring an ethics attorney would be overkill.

There, she fielded ethics hotline inquiries from lawyers, judges and other legal professionals.

ER for Lawyers is a step between local bar ethics hotlines and full - fledged legal representation, Thompson says.

In the worst cases, whistleblowers claim they were fired after reporting violations to the bank's ethics hotline or trying to alert supervisors to illegal behavior.

She says she probably could have run an ethics hotline for medical professionals, but «I thought the best thing I could do was empower them to make their own decisions.»

Subsequent reports have been even more damning because, it is alleged, that some employees alerted management to the problems via an internal «ethics hotline» only to be fired shortly thereafter.