If you haven’t taken a look at your organization’s workplace drug policy in a while, now may be a good time. Quest Diagnostics just released its 2018 Drug Testing Index, and workforce positivity rates are the highest they’ve been in 10 years. Webinar: What Not to Miss in Your Employee Handbook If your company hasn’t […]
The appointment of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney has brought the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau back into the national spotlight. It almost feels like 2010 again, doesn’t it? In many ways, today’s political battles over the CFPB’s future echo the raging debates from 8 years ago—back in the early days of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform […]
Who wants to spend an hour talking about employee terminations? Apparently, a lot of you: our June 6th webinar, Termination Best Practices, is filling up faster than any presentation we’ve done to date! Good thing, too—because our speakers enjoy talking about terminations as much as you want to hear about them. Join Compli and Fisher […]
As automotive industry compliance grows more and more complex, dealerships are increasingly starting to videotape their F&I transactions. By recording these interactions between employees and customers, dealers hope to collect evidence that their compliance programs work as intended, or otherwise spot issues as they occur in the real world and take swift corrective action. As […]
We’d like to introduce you to a new perspective on the Smart Compliance Blog. We’re excited to have the team from Hireology join us to teach us all how to build our best team. They’ll be joining us periodically to share their insights. Here’s the first of many helpful articles… The unemployment rate is at a […]
It’s a new day at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under Mick Mulvaney, the CFPB appears to have pulled back from its formerly aggressive enforcement style, emphasizing, in the Acting Director’s words, “quantifiable and unavoidable harm to the consumer” rather than “excuses to bring lawsuits.” But as lenders know, there’s a big difference between soundbites […]
If we were ever on track to live in The Matrix, that vision of the future has gone the way of the flip phone. By now, we’ve all seen so much news about cyberattacks and data breaches—or have experienced an attack ourselves—in that the techno-dystopian fantasies of sci-fi movies and books seem like quaint relics […]
Our partners from Hudson Cook stopped by The Smart Compliance Blog to talk about advertising and gotchas that come up with consumer protection laws. Here’s what they had to say… The Driver’s Privacy Protection Act doesn’t get as much attention as most federal consumer protection laws. But you should keep it in mind when you […]
Chances are you’ve heard of the Rust Belt and the Bible Belt—the regions of the US characterized, respectively, by economic decline and evangelical Christianity. You may have also heard of the Sun Belt, the portion of the country roughly below the 36th parallel, where the sun’s always shining, business is booming, and everyone’s happily retired. […]
No matter who’s in charge, compliance is good business. That was the overarching theme of two events I recently attended: the American Financial Service Association’s 2018 Independents Conference and the 2018 Auto Finance Performance and Compliance Summit. No matter who’s in charge, compliance is good business. That was the overarching theme of two events I […]
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