Ethics in the Workplace for 2022! Why Should Employers Include Ethics as a Priority!

COVID-19 has forced many ethical considerations to the forefront of HR. 
Whether confronting issues related to vaccinations, masking, employee retention, or mental health, making decisions based on ethics is a daily chore for many HR professionals. Moreover, ethics impact employees who value a company with ethics and have been known to stay employed with such a company.

COVID-19 was not the only impact on Ethics in the workplace. Employers who have decreased their ethics compliance have been known to lose in employee retention. Transparency is more of a need now than ever before.

Hybrid workplaces have also made an impact on workplaces. Remote work and those Employers making a decision to have employees come to the office have to ensure they provide ethics training so employees understand what is expected.

Many HR professionals and other professionals are required to attend ethics classes as part of their professional associations and careers. This requirement will assist Employers to ensure that Ethics is part of compliance initiatives.

• What is workplace ethics?
• Learn how an effective ethics program and training can increase a company’s
• What is the impact of a weak ethics program?
• Learn how COVID-19 impacted ethics in the workplace
• Learn how the previous administration has changed how ethics is perceived in the workplace
• Learning what best practices on ethics focus can provide significant factors in the workplace
• Learn how transparency by workplace leaders will make an ethical program
• Learn how the great resignation concept includes employees who do not trust employers
• Learn how regular ethics training will prepare managers and professionals to establish an effective ethics program

Why do you need an Ethics Code in your company? 
If it’s legal doesn’t that mean it’s ethical?  
How can having one benefit your profits and protect your company from legal problems? How can NOT having one set you up for problems and financial disaster? The bottom line is that companies should have ethics codes to promote ethical behavior - not to enhance productivity, profits, or public relations.  
On the other hand, a sound, well-administered code can benefit a company and its stakeholders in a variety of ways.
Ethical organizations develop and maintain strong responsibilities to the general public, their customers, their employees, and their investors. Just developing an ethics compliance policy is not enough organizations need to develop a culture of ethics which includes training managers and employees and adding it to your employee handbook with leadership taking an active role.  
We are going to learn how a well-established ethics program will bring value to any company. A weak ethics program can ruin the company’s reputation and will lose employees.

• All Employers
• Business Owners
• HR Professionals
• Company Leadership
• Supervisors/Managers
• Compliance professionals
• Small Business Owners
• Defense and federal contractors
• Ethics officers

Margie Faulk is a senior level human resources professional with over 15 years of HR management and compliance experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC, Margie, has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors.  Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduces potential workplace fines and penalties from violation of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s area of expertise includes Criminal Background Screening Policies and auditing, I-9 document correction and storage compliance, Immigration compliance, employee handbook development, policy development, sexual harassment investigations/certified training, SOX regulations, payroll compliance, compliance consulting, monitoring US-based federal, state and local regulations, employee relations issues, internal investigations, HR management, compliance consulting, internal/external audits, and performance management.

Margie is a speaker and accomplished trainer and has created and presented compliance seminars/webinars for over 16 US and International compliance institutes. Margie has testified as a compliance subject matter expert (SME) for several regulatory agencies and against regulatory agencies, thank goodness not on the same day. Margie offers compliance training to HR professionals, business owners, and leadership to ensure compliance with workplace and regulations.

Margie’s unique training philosophy includes providing free customized tools for all attendees. These tools are customized and have been proven to be part an effective risk management strategy. Some of the customized tools include the I-9 Self Audit. Correction and Storage program, Ban the Box Decision Matrix Policy that Employers can provide in a dispute for allegations, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Compliance Guide, Drug-Free Workplace Volatile Termination E-Book and other compliance program tools when attendees register and attend Margie’s trainings.

Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).