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Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 3
The Compliance Jobs Report kicks off October with several retirements to note, plus new hires at Organon, Eli Lilly, Loews, Visa, Nabors, and lots more; and promotions at Bulgari, Caterpillar, Thermo Fisher, Elevance, and elsewhere. Job leads are in nature, nuclear power, and banking. Meme of the Week goes out to voluntary self-disclosure! We also…
Read MoreCalifornia Nails Tractor Supply on Privacy
Tractor Supply Co. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle charges with California regulators that the company violated the state’s tough data privacy law — the largest privacy fine in state history, and the state’s first enforcement action that extends to privacy rights for job applicants. Let’s take a look. The California Privacy Protection…
Read MoreWhen Bots Rip Apart Your Business
Corporate compliance officers are always thinking about how to make sure that your organization’s various stakeholder groups — employees, shareholders, customers, donors, business partners — all understand your corporate culture, values, and ethical priorities. Now we have a new stakeholder group threatening that goal: stakeholders that don’t actually exist. So says a fascinating article from…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 26
What better way to celebrate World Compliance Officer Day than with the Compliance Jobs Report? This week we have new hires at TD Bank, U.S. Bank, Lockheed Martin, Equifax, Heinecken, and many more. Promotions at AbbVie, Google, Capital One, and elsewhere; and job leads are in insurance, convenience stores, and documents! We also take any…
Read MoreAre Boards Getting Cyber Wrong?
A new report finds that most large corporations in the United States assign oversight of cybersecurity risk to the board’s audit committee, which isn’t the craziest governance decision a board can make but does raise questions about whether boards are addressing cybersecurity as wisely as possible. The report comes from MyLogIQ, a software firm that…
Read MoreStudy Flags Audit Teams, Geopolitical Risk
Here’s a tricky one for corporate risk managers and internal audit teams everywhere: worries about geopolitical risk are surging among organizations around the world, but audit teams still rate geopolitical risk as a low priority — creating an “alignment gap” between risk and risk management in some places is alarmingly large. So says a report…
Read MoreWhat the H1-B Visa Mess Says About Trump 2.0
Immigration visas might be an obscure topic for corporate compliance officers, but we should spend some time today examining the changes President Trump just announced for holders of H1-B visas. It’s emblematic of so much that we encounter in this messy Trump 2.0 Administration. Here’s what happened. On Friday evening, Trump announced a new $100,000…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 19
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Albemarle, Becton Dickinson, TMS International, and more; and also departures from Allianz Life, HP, and Commonwealth Financial. Promotions to note at Stripe, Lending Club, AbbVie, and elsewhere; plus job leads in insurance, consumer products, and online auctions. Meme of the Week goes out to AI!…
Read MoreDispatches From SCCE 2025
That’s a wrap on the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics 2025 conference, where more than 1,200 people gathered to swap tips about corporate compliance programs, hear from keynote speakers talking big ideas, and swipe swag from several dozen vendors. As always, we have a roundup of social media dispatches for those who couldn’t attend…
Read MoreDealing With Kirk Accusations
Compliance officers might be hoping to avoid the vicious political fallout from the assassination of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk. Well, no such luck: online activists are now trying to out supposed anti-Kirk critics, sometimes getting it wrong, and heaping a pile of investigative and due process headache onto your doorstep. The headache happens as follows.…
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