{"id":7310,"date":"2013-04-16T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2013-04-17T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:31:08","slug":"thyssenkrupp-offers-amnesty-in-anti-corruption-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/04\/16\/thyssenkrupp-offers-amnesty-in-anti-corruption-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"ThyssenKrupp Offers Amnesty in Anti-corruption Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/corporate-responsibility\/thyssenkrupp-offers-amnesty-anti-corruption-drive\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7311\" title=\"ThyssenKrupp Offers Amnesty in Anti-corruption Drive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130417_tk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Heavy industry giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/resources\/iw1000\/2012\/75\">ThyssenKrupp (IW1000\/75<\/a>),  rocked by a slew of corruption scandals, said Tuesday it will not  prosecute or fire employees involved in any wrongdoing if they cooperate  in uncovering the malpractices. &#8220;For employees who disclose compliance  matters voluntarily, truthfully and fully &#8230; and who cooperate  unreservedly in investigating them, the executive board promises that it  will not assert or enforce damage claims,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;Subject to this condition, the  information provided in this connection will also not be used as a  reason to unilaterally terminate the employment of the disclosing  employee.&#8221; ThyssenKrupp, long regarded as one of the emblems of Germany&#8217;s  technological prowess, has seen its image tarnished recently in the wake  of a series of corruption allegations, including a price-fixing cartel,  luxury trips laid on for journalists and alleged bribery in contracts  in eastern Europe and China. Last month, the group&#8217;s supervisory board chief  Gerhard Cromme quit over his handling of the scandals as ThyssenKrupp  battles to clean up its image. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/corporate-responsibility\/thyssenkrupp-offers-amnesty-anti-corruption-drive\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: ThyssenKrupp\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/corporate-responsibility\/thyssenkrupp-offers-amnesty-anti-corruption-drive\" target=\"_blank\">IndustryWeek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp (IW1000\/75), rocked by a slew of corruption scandals, said Tuesday it will not prosecute or fire employees involved in any wrongdoing if they cooperate in uncovering the malpractices. &#8220;For employees who disclose compliance matters voluntarily, truthfully and fully &#8230; and who cooperate unreservedly in investigating them, the executive board promises that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-thyssenkrupp","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}