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International: International

When Darkness Falls in Delhi

07/26/2011 - The growth of 24/7 call centers in India puts women at risk. Efforts to protect them have generated results as well as criticism.
Book Reviews: Risk Management

Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently

07/25/2011 - The ambitious title of Rethinking Risk is overly broad, to say the least reviewer Ross Johnson says.
Book Reviews: Best Practices \ Case Studies

Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work In the 21st Century Organization

07/25/2011 - This text has considerable relevance to both the security and risk management professions and gives readers an appreciation of how they might develop an enterprisewide approach to protecting assets.
Editor's Note: Viewpoint

Who’s Really Stealing Company Assets?

07/22/2011 - Looking at whose hands are really in the corporate cookie jar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Legal Report: Legal Issues

Legal Report

06/30/2011 - Courts rule on hostile work environments. A federal appeals court upholds the fraud conviction of a former En­ron executive, while states introduce bills on defamatory information online and handguns in the workplace.
Legal Report: Workplace Violence

Discrimination

06/30/2011 - An employee who was fired for harassing a fellow employee may not sue her employer for discrimination. The employee claimed it was her religious duty as a Christian to constantly tell a gay coworker that she “was going to hell” and “had no right to live on this earth.” After the employee was fired, she filed a lawsuit claiming that she was discriminated against because of her religion. The federal appeals court ruled that the employee was fired for harassing her coworker, not because of her religion.
Beyond Print: Workplace Violence

Hostile Work Environment

06/30/2011 - A federal appeals court has ruled that an employee may not sue his employer for creating a hostile work environment because the employer took immediate action to correct the problem, and the employee failed to report subsequent incidents. 
Technofile: IT Security

Behind the Numbers

06/27/2011 - Forrester Research examines why employees are using unauthorized software at work.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues

Defamation

05/27/2011 - Those who publicly report expunged conviction records are not liable for defamation if the information disclosed is true, according to the New Jersey Supreme Court. In the case, a political campaign publicized the expunged drug conviction of an opponent’s aide in a flyer.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues

Retaliation

05/27/2011 - An employee who was fired shortly after complaining of sexual harassment may pursue his retaliation claim against his employer, according to a federal appeals court (.pdf). The employee may pursue his lawsuit because he was fired two days after making a claim. The timing alone, ruled the court, serves as circumstantial evidence of retaliation.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues

Discrimination

05/27/2011 - An employer is liable for discrimination against an employee who was also a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court ruled that even though the person who fired the reservist had no discriminatory motives, she relied on information from those who did.
Hiring \ Employment Issues

The Matrix Quandary

05/27/2011 - Companies get into trouble when the rules they develop for their hiring-decision matrix are not well-conceived or legally defensible.
Managing: Viewpoint

Investigating Abroad

05/27/2011 - To get the most useful information possible, companies must know how to find the best vendor for the job.
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