New Course – Modern Slavery: Practical Steps for Procurement
New modern slavery course for procurement teams VinciWorks has just released a new advanced course on Modern Slavery. A companion to the introductory Modern Slavery: Preventing Exploitation, this 45 minute course is tailored to procurement teams. It gives further insight into modern slavery in supply chains and will help carry out risk assessments. The course can be fully […]
Have religious symbols been banned at work?
What your company needs to know about the new EU court ruling on headscarves at work What happened? The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently ruled that companies can have a general policy banning all religious and political symbols if it is ‘objectively justified’, as the Court says. The problem is that in 2013, […]
Draft Money Laundering Regulations 2017 released – no CDD exemption for pooled accounts
On 17th March, HM Treasury released a draft of Money Laundering Regulations 2017, which transposes the Fourth Money Laundering Directive into UK Law. At the same time, the government published a new consultation requesting the public’s view on the draft. Below are the key takeaways. No automatic exemption from enhanced due diligence for pooled accounts […]
Does Uber pay VAT? Tax dodging and the gig economy
The gig economy has a compliance problem The gig economy is creating a multitude of unpaid tax liabilities, and HMRC may be ready to use new tax dodging laws to crackdown on start-ups and their “self-employed” workers. In 2017 the Criminal Finances Bill and Finance Bill comes into force, making it easier to prosecute the […]
GDPR ready data protection policy template
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in force. It presents the most significant change to EU data protection in 20 years, meaning organisations have had to update their policies to ensure they are compliant. Further, all staff who are involved in the processing and storing of data must be familiar with their organisation’s data […]
