Ethics In Workplace Training For Managers and Executives

The vast majority of people are ethical. They want to do the right thing and follow the law. They want to work for companies that are ethical, too. In the Ethics Resource Center’s National Business Ethics Survey, the vast majority of the workers questioned said they expect their employers to do "what is right, not just what is profitable." We offer in-depth information about ethics in workplace issues including general ethics (values that set a higher standard than the legal minimum), employee responsibilities such as the duty of loyalty, and corporate compliance issues such as insider trading, antitrust and intellectual property.

Get the training for your executives and managers through our Managing Within the Law II course and our Managing Ethically training course.

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Below you will find our answered Ask the Lawyer questions and eNews articles grouped under FAQ catagories.

FAQs

• What is an employee's duty of loyalty?
• How do we protect intellectual property?
• What are the rights and responsibilities in hiring?
• What are our ethical responsibilites?
• What are the rights and responsibilities of whistleblowers?
  

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FAQs

What is an employee's duty of loyalty?

• Can I fire a service technician who told our best customer that we do not give pay raises and then asked the customer to hire her?
• If an employee refuses to pay back a cash shortage, what, if any, action can the employer take?
• Can I quit and get unemployment benefits because my commute is too long?
• Ex-employee says we're going broke - what can we do?
• Employee is looking for reasons to sue us - can we fire her?
• Can we fire employee whose business prevents her from working nights and weekends?

How do we protect intellectual property?

• We don't have a non-compete, and employee wants to steal client. What do we do?
• How do we protect our intellectual property from our employees?
• What information can an employee take to a new employer?
• Steal trade secrets, go to jail

What are our rights and responsibilities in hiring?

• Should an employee be terminated if false documentation is discovered?
• If I use synthetic urine for a pre-hire screen to mask a pregnancy, can my employer fire me for doing so?
• Does Sarbanes-Oxley require background checks?
• Are non-solicitation agreements legal in Texas?
• Employees win failure to hire cases - even though they didn't apply for the jobs
• Are these questions legal to ask in interviews?
• What are legal and illegal questions about citizenship?
• What are legal implications of post-tests?

What are our ethical responsibilities?

• Is this a conflict of interest?
• Why Legal Training for Managers Improves the Bottom Line
• What a Difference a Year Makes! The Obama Administration and Employment Law
• What areas of employment law are least understood by managers?
• 2007 New Year's Resolutions to Stay Out of Court
• New Year's resolutions to stay out of court
• Do we have to give employees copies of their files?
• Employee ordered to pay $27 million to company
• How do I fire a manager who was encouraged to falsify expenses?
• Can we discipline a supervisor who requires her secretary to drive her to meetings?
• Can the employer add a non-compete agreement to the policy manual?
• Can we contract with our employee's side business?
• Fire a Whistleblower, or Falsify Documents, and Go to Jail
• Who are these people?
• How can we comply with posting requirements of every state?

What are the rights and responsibilities of whistleblowers?

• Retaliation: An Expensive Proposition
• New rights for "whistleblowers"
• I was penalized for refusing to do something unethical - what are my rights?

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