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Fridays with HR by the bagel in Cracow | Internal investigations - practice and legislation
November 25 |10.00 am – 12.00 pm | Hybrid event
Conducting internal investigations in cases of suspected irregularities is a standard.
Good practice and principles for conducting investigations have been developed, despite the lack of legislation explicitly addressing this matter.
Will the ongoing legislative work (especially on the whistleblower protection act) affect the way internal investigations are conducted? What obligations and rights does the employer have during the proceedings? What risks are involved in conducting internal investigations?
Agenda:
- Internal investigations - objectives and functions
- Existing and proposed legislation – what is changing?
- Conducting internal investigations - good practice and standards of conduct
Venue onsite: Grand Ascot Hotel, Józefa Szujskiego 4, 31-123 Kraków.
Participation os free of chargr. The event will be held in a polish language.
Speakers
Doctor of Juridical Sciences / Head of the Krakow Office.
Dominika heads the personal data protection practice. She has over 20 years of experience in advising international corporations and domestic clients on labour and HR law, employee data protection, protection of personal rights in employment with an emphasis on mobbing and discrimination.
She is experienced in developing draft versions of company’s internal sources of law and negotiating their implementation with trade unions, running compliance audits in line with legal requirements and business ethics, as well as implementing the ensuing recommendations.
For over 10 years she has been an Adjunct Professor in the Chair of Labour Law and Social Policy at the Jagiellonian University. She is a well-regarded lecturer at the Jagiellonian University’s post-graduate studies in Labour Law where she lectures on personal data protection in employment, discrimination and selected aspects of collective labour law.
She is the author of a number of academic and popularizing publications in the press and books on labour law and data protection, and a consultant to many legal magazines. She conducts training sessions and workshops, in particular for top management, and members of anti-mobbing commissions.
Head of the Business Crime and Compliance Practice.
Janusz has over 15 years of experience in managing complex, high-stakes business crime matters and internal investigations. He advises and represents corporate and individual clients in investigations and prosecutions by law enforcement authorities, including domestic and multi-jurisdictional cases.
He blends years of litigation practice with in-depth knowledge of how corporations operate, and the liability borne by top management.
More recently, he has been dealing with high-profile, corporate internal investigations, concerning allegations of fraud and corruption (commercial and public) in companies from the financial, media and wood industries . Moreover, he has been advising corporate and individual clients on white-collar prosecutions related to allegations of commercial and tax fraud and abuse of trust offences, as well as on compliance and remediation programs to address detected irregularities.
His unique area of expertise concerns offences committed in the workplace, i.e. related to health and safety, as well as relations with trade unions.
He serves as an expert witness who gives evidence in British courts regarding the Polish law and justice system.
He is a member of the International Bar Association (Senior Vice-Chair of the Criminal Law Committee), the European Criminal Bar Association, the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers Association, and the Extradition Lawyers Association. Since 2010 Janusz has been a judge at the Warsaw and National Bar disciplinary bodies (lawyers’ professional liability).
He is highly regarded in international rankings, such as Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 EMEA in white-collar crime, and Who's Who Legal as a Thought Leader and Global Leader in Business Crime Defence and Investigations.
He is a speaker and organiser of conferences on the many aspects of criminal liability. Author of Polish and international publications regarding criminal law.
Ewelina deals with business criminal law. She advises in criminal proceedings concerning corruption, fraud or mismanagement allegations.
She supports Polish and international clients in conducting internal investigations.
Ewelina specializes in building and implementing compliance management systems.She develops internal procedures, including whistleblowing policies as well as procedures on counteracting abuses.
Certified Approved Compliance Expert, Approved Compliance Officer and Approved Whistleblowing Officer.
Ewelina advises on issues related to crisis management.
She conducts training sessions on compliance and business criminal law matters.
Author of many press and scientific publications, including a monograph on compliance risk management in the sports sector.
Recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 in the area of White-Collar Crime.
Member of the Associates Committee of Concilium Global Compliance, Investigations & Defense Network. Member of the Investigations expert group at Ius Laboris.