What is the overall relationship between laws and ethics?

Nature is CLOSER TO THE EDGE: What is the overall relationship between laws and ethics?
What is the overall relationship between laws and ethics. In regard to the field of human resources, are there times in which laws and ethics conflict? If so, when and how? Provide an example of such a conflict.

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Answer by Obama’s Step Mama
mutually exclusive. Law is for tools…your ethics should guide you.

Answer by firewomen
should go hand in hand but now days that is a joke.