The Global Workplace Compliance Network (GWCN) is a unique source of information and networking for U.S.-based in-house attorneys and other senior workplace compliance professionals. The GWCN puts members in contact with expertise from around the globe, and provides a confidential forum in which they can discuss important topics, such as:

• Regulations regarding international layoffs, relocations, redeployments
• Cross-border compliance
• Managing contract issues across multiple jurisdictions
• New legislation and court decisions from around the world

Through its private website & premium webinar series, the GWCN gives members access to valuable resources from anywhere they have Internet or phone access--at the office, at home, or even on the road.  That means members can learn and network with each otehr without the time or expense of travel. 

Where Workplace Knowledge and Legal Expertise Meet

The GWCN is a partnership between ORC Worldwide and Fortney & Scott, LLC. ORC Worldwide is a global consulting firm with a long history of assembling leading-edge peer group networks. Senior managers and corporate labor and employment counsel from more than 200 Fortune 500 companies participate in ORC networks and activities covering topics, such as equal employment opportunity, affirmative action and diversity, and labor and employment law. Fortney & Scott, LLC is a Washington, DC-based law firm counseling and advising clients on the full spectrum of workplace-related matters, including employment discrimination and labor, compliance programs, executive employment and compensation, and international dispute resolution.

Global Workplace Compliance Network Membership Privileges

The GWCN helps members face increasingly complex compliance challenges by keeping them informed of the myriad of workplace-related laws and regulations, and connecting them with leading international lawyers, subject matter experts, and peers dealing with those issues.

As part of the annual membership fee, GWCN members receive the following:

• Four annual webinars presented by international lawyers and other experts on emerging issues in global workplace compliance
• Periodic updates on international workplace compliance developments
• Virtual roundtables and blogs for network members that spark and facilitate discussion and interaction
• Members-only website providing access to presentations, white papers and other practical, valuable materials from international law experts

Introductory Membership Price

• A one-year GWCN membership is currently available for the special introductory price of $1,500. If more than one compliance professional from the same organization would like to join, the second membership is available for half of this special introductory price. 

 Special Client Discount

• A discount of $500 is available to prospective members who already belong to one of ORC’s networks or whose organizations are clients of FortneyScott or ORC Worldwide. A second membership for an individual from the same organization is also available at half the discounted membership price.
• Introductory Membership Price and Special Client Discount are valid for memberships paid for by December 31, 2009. 

 Join a Unique Network for Compliance Professionals