The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, program benchmarking, roundtable events, and a resource library with hundreds of policy guidance documents, member-contributed program examples, and more.

One of the most popular aspects of BELA membership is our concierge service, in which members can submit any question at all regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer and helpful resources with further information.

And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, which is why we’re using this program to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne asks a question about substantiating retaliation claims, and a related question on whether people can use hotlines themselves as a form of retaliation. (Spoiler: They can.)