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Women whistleblowers suffer more

Female whistleblowers are subject to harsher retailiation than men

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A court has ruled that a former senior employee of global consulting firm Accenture, who was stationed in Paris, can sue for damages under Sarbanes-Oxley.

Who exposes corporate fraud?

Who blows the whistle? discovery of fraud comes from many sources. And stock exchange regulators, commercial banks and underwriters are not there at all. And the SEC plays little role in exposing fraud.

How to develop a whistleblower culture

How do you build a whistleblower culture? Putting in a hotline is the first step only. It has to be managed carefully using special methods.

SOX fails another whistleblower test

As if we needed any further evidence that Sarbanes-Oxley was useless to whistleblowers. The first person to win whistleblower protection under SOX has ended up losing his case.

Sarbanes-Oxley and whistleblowers

Sarbanes-Oxley needs radical surgery to protect whistleblowers. Start by extending its 90-day statute of limitations to 180 days, fixing up the "burden of proof" provision and clarifying the Act's coverage so that employees can report wrongdoings that are not deemed to be outside its jurisdiction.

Whistleblower incentives?

Sarbanes-Oxley has failed to protect whistleblowers. How do you make it work? Give whistleblowers a special SOX bounty is one suggestion.

Whistleblower best practice

Protecting and encouraging whistleblowers is now the big governance issue. Here are some international best practice procedures to make sure it works.

SOX no good for whistleblowers

A new study shows that Sarbanes-Oxley doesn t protect whistleblowers. Might even discourage them. After the law came into effect, the proportion of whistleblowers reporting fraud went from 20 per cent down to 16 per cent.

Unired Airlines Flight 93, conversations and whistleblowers

The behaviour of passengers on board United Flight 93, the plane hijacked on September 11 2001 which ended up crashing into a field, could provide some guidance on how to open up the lines of communications in companies, and protect whistlelblowers.