Every compliance officer in the United States knows that translating our expectations about business conduct into terms that overseas employees can understand is a daunting task. So if you’re looking for one specific example to demonstrate the problem to your board or CEO, I’d suggest dropping by the FCPA Compliance Group on LinkedIn.
A discussion thread posted to the group last week talks about training Latin American employees on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and buried halfway down the comments is this little gem: that the Spanish language has no word for “whistleblower.”
