Incentives in Your Antitrust Compliance Program

Incentives play an essential role in having an effective and credible compliance program. The U.S. DOJ has made this clear in its guidance statements. There tends to be, however, reluctance in companies to embrace the use of incentives for this purpose. This paper explains why using incentives is essential and provides guidance on ways to do this. The steps for using incentives include:

• Being sure compliance has input on all incentive and reward systems
• Compliance having a say on who is promote