Modern Slavery Act 2015 – deadline tomorrow
30th June 2017 marks the next big deadline for Modern Slavery Act compliance. Organisations with a financial year-end date of 31st December are required to produce a Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement before that date. Train your staff with our suite of courses Since VinciWorks released its first course on modern slavery a year ago, […]
New and Expectant Mothers: Rights and Responsibilities
New and Expectant Mothers: Do you and your employees know their rights and responsibilities? Legal obligations regarding new and expectant mothers are set out in the following legislation; the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 and the Equality Act 2010. This legislation requires employers […]
Changes between the draft and final Money Laundering Regulations 2017
The government released a draft of the Money Laundering Regulations back in March 2017 outlining the proposed approach to transposing the Fourth Money Laundering Directive into UK law. On 26th June, those Regulations became law, having been rushed through Parliament. Most of the content of the final law is the same as in the draft; […]
Your essential four step guide to risk management
The Importance of having an integrated risk and business strategy Does your risk strategy and business strategy sit in two separate folders? When drafting your risk strategy, was it aligned to the business strategy and written with your organisational goals at the forefront? Or, as most companies do, is your risk strategy little more than a […]
Government rushes through new Money Laundering Regulations 2017
Parliamentary procedure broken in order to meet today’s EU deadline The government confirmed at the last minute the new EU Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4MLD) will come into force today (Monday) in order to meet the European deadline of transposing the 4th Directive into national legislation by 26 June 2017. Due to the general election, […]
Is your law firm doing enough to tackle modern slavery?
In June, the Law Society published its first slavery and human trafficking statement under the requirements of Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. This emphasises its call for the legal industry to be at the forefront of the fight against modern slavery. Overall, 87 law firms have published their own modern slavery statements – a […]
What is Legionella and what are the risks?
What is Legionella? Legionella is a pathogenic, waterborne bacterium that causes Legionellosis – the potentially serious Legionnaires’ disease – and the similar, but less serious Pontiac fever and Lochgoilhead fever. Legionella bacteria is commonly found in water, occurring naturally in lakes and rivers but has also been found to thrive and dangerously multiply, in artificial […]
The SRA handbook – what will be changing?
The SRA has just published their decision and response to the ‘looking to the future’ consultation on changes to the SRA handbook. Over 11,000 people engaged in the process, reflecting opinion from a broad range of people and organisations including solicitors, law firms the public and representative bodies. Solicitors can not only expect a shorter, […]
Equality and Diversity Policies: What is Workplace Discrimination
Creating a working environment that embraces all people free from discrimination, is a continual challenge for employers. As responsible employers, you have a duty to provide equality and diversity in the workplace where employees and customers are treated fairly and equally regardless of colour, race, age, gender or belief and valuing the differences and diversity […]
Fourth Directive comes into force – here are the changes
The Fourth Money Laundering Directive came into force on 26 June 2017. The new Money Laundering Regulations 2017 contain some key changes over the previous law that will take some time to implement.
