Code Certification
The percentage of local officers, Executive board members, and staff that that should receive training on the SEIU Code of Ethics.
What is 100%?
The SEIU Virginia 512 Executive Board, Officers, and staff.
Who are "covered individuals?"
The point person in a local for code and culture.
What is the Ethics Liaison?
Covered individuals are free to keep gifts of minimal financial value, although they are free to hold themselves to a higher standard by declining such gifts altogether.
How should a $10 gift card from Panera to you be handled under the SEIU Code of Ethics?
As long as the manager is not directly supervising the employee.
When is it acceptable under the Code of Ethics for a manager and staff member in the same department to have a romantic relationship?
The percentage of the SEIU Virginia 512 statewide executive board that certified reading and honoring the Code of Ethics in 2018.
What is 40%?
The Ethics code training is once, and the certification is annual.
What is the annual certification process?
These are the Ethics "rituals" we have established at SEIU Virginia 512.
What is Ethical Hero Award? What is the Ethical theme word of the year?
SEIU Virginia 512's Secretary-Treasurer is running for re-election. One of the members makes a contribution of $100 to her campaign. This is what the Ethics Code says about this type of Gift and Payment.
What is, "Is that permitted under the code? Yes, contributions for campaigns for Union office are permitted under the Code"?
Mike can be charged with another Code violation because failure to cooperate with an investigation is in itself a violation.
Mike is accused of violating the Code of Ethics, and the Local Ethics Liaison begins to look into it. Mike knows he did nothing wrong and is very busy. He decides he does not have time to cooperate with the investigation. What happens now?
SEIU Virginia 512 has regular training points and all staff meeting trainings on the content of the Ethics Code for this reason.
What is SEIU Virginia 512's established process for conducting an annual ethics certification?
You have to score at least a 70%.
What is a passing score for the Ethics code training?
This is a part of our new hire on-boarding process at SEIU Virginia 512.
What is the Ethics training?
They should not be evaluated differently from other applicants.
What are applications for employment by relatives and those who have a personal relationship with an SEIU employee?
The Ethics Liaison, anyone who makes a charge of violation of the Code in good faith, anyone who gives evidence in an investigation of of a charge of violation.
Who does the SEIU Code of Ethics prohibit retaliation against?
The number of SEIU Virginia 512 staff members who have completed their Ethics code certification for 2021.
17 out of 19 staff members
The Ethics Liaison turns this in at the end of every year to the Ethics Department at the International.
What is the SEIU Local Union Ethics Self Assessment Report?
Solidarity
What is the SEIU Virginia 512 ethical theme word for 2019?
The supervision is not "direct" and there are intermediate levels of supervision where decisions about terms and conditions of employment can be made.
When can an officer or employee supervise a relative or person with whom he or she has a personal relationship?
Family or personal relationships that could influence actions taken in an official union role, financial interests or transactions that could compromise a covered individual's duty to members, a competing duty owed to another organization that could affect an officer's judgment concerning SEIU responsibilities.
What are the conflicts of interest that must be disclosed under the SEIU Code of Ethics?
This is where SEIU Virgnia 512 has attached or appended the revised Ethics Code.
What is the SEIU Virginia 512 Constitution and Bylaws?
Prepare, Interview, Evaluate, Report, Recommend, Follow Up.
What are the steps the Ethics Liaison must follow to address an ethics complaint at the local?
Approachable, assertive, dedicated, discrete, persistent, prompt
What are the key qualities of an ethics liaison?
1. Identify potential witnesses, 2. Identify relevant documents and emails, 3. Consult relevant stakeholders.
How does the local's Ethics Liaison begin an investigation into a complaint?
Disclose it to the Local's Ethics Liaison or the SEIU Ethics Ombudsperson.
What does the SEIU Code require a covered individual with a potential conflict of interest to do in every instance?