Best Practices When Handling Whistleblower Complaints

Business litigation partners Tracey Salmon-Smith, Sandra Grannum and Jesse Linebaugh and associate Vijayasri Aryama coauthored an article for the Journal of Financial Compliance as an initial guide for members of public companies on creating company whistleblower policies and procedures for the investigation of employee whistleblower complaints.

The authors explain that companies should establish clear internal policies for how employees can make whistleblower complaints, who should receive those complaints, how to investigate those complaints (whether internally or externally) and how the results of the investigation should be reported or shared with others.

The full article is available for Journal of Financial Compliance subscribers.