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Does your company require ethics/legal compliance training for staff and/or contract lobbyists/consultants?

The Public Affairs Council's Corporate Washington Office Benchmarking Project posed the following question to companies with an identified Government Relations office in the Washington, D.C. area:

Does your company require ethics/legal compliance training for staff and/or contract lobbyists/consultants?

While the vast majority of respondents offer ethics and/or legal compliance training to their staff, less than one-quarter provide similar training for their contract lobbyists:

Company-Provided Ethics and

Legal Compliance Training

Percent of Companies

Ethics

Legal Compliance

Staff

94%

88%

Contract lobbyists

16%

21%

N=110

 

 

The biennial Corporate Washington Office Benchmarking Project provides a comprehensive analysis of how Public Affairs Council-member companies plan, resource, conduct and evaluate the work carried out in their Washington offices. This project looks beyond the traditional role of engaging federal government relations, identifying management approaches for the full range of corporate activities carried out in Washington.