The ERC Fellows Program formed a working group to assess the many ways in which companies combat workplace retaliation and to share leading practices we identified during our assessment with the ethics and compliance community. Our first offering to the field consists of observations and considerations for companies to consider when developing or revising a non-retaliation policy. The working group reviewed, discussed, and evaluated the characteristics of publicly available non-retaliation policies as well as a sampling of non-retaliation policies of our member organizations. We also conducted a review of the ethics & compliance literature on retaliation. The working group recognizes that policy content and level of detail will vary for each organization depending upon its culture, industry, and internal processes. We therefore offer organizations questions to consider when drafting or revising content for a non-retaliation policy rather than prescribing specific policy elements to adopt.
