New course release – Competition Law: Know Your Market
VinciWorks has just released a new course as part of its Market Rules series. Competition Law: Know Your Market drops users into a set of immersive scenarios to test their knowledge, understanding and ability to comply with UK competition law. The course is broken into short modules that cover different aspects of UK competition law, […]
Tabletop exercises – What do you mean I’m on the Business Continuity team?
The unthinkable has happened and you’re busy gathering your business continuity team together to manage the incident. You pop your head around the door to the Head of HR and they say they have no idea that they’re meant to be on the team. The Head of Legal says the same. You’re already in a […]
On-demand webinar – Understanding the SRA Regulatory Reforms
The Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has been finalising a package of reforms designed to provide solicitors and law firms with greater flexibility over how they operate, making legal services more accessible to the public. These include the new Price Transparency Rules set to be introduced on 6 December 2018, the Insurance Distribution Directive and reforms […]
Sexual harassment training tailored for New York firms
The headline is sadly too familiar. We’re told how many more victims have now come forward since the first allegation of sexual misconduct against the previously well-respected celebrity. Victims who knew the perpetrator in a professional capacity with accounts that stretch back to when they, now in the twilight of their career, were in their […]
Is your Workplace Safe during Periods of Extreme Weather?
As the next cold snap looms, we’re looking at the tricky topic of temperatures in the workplace – and the impacts that extreme spells of hot and cold can have on employees. Before we look at the challenge of cold workplaces, it’s worth noting that MPs recently rejected requests to create a law to define […]
Competition Law – Understanding price fixing
Retail Competition Law Competition law is a series of rules and regulations which seeks to maintain fair competition in an open market and regulate anti-competitive conduct by companies. One of the key aspects of competition law is price fixing. This is an illegal activity that can result in huge fines, criminal convictions and imprisonment. What […]
November News Roundup
A British retailer fined £337k after customer falls through a trapdoor A 64-year-old woman was browsing birthday cards when she fell three metres through an open trapdoor into the store’s basement. A nearby shop employee tried to grab the woman as she was falling, but did not manage to stop her. This resulted in multiple […]
Omnitrack user experience upgraded
As part of our commitment to providing our clients with better and more efficient products, we are pleased to announce that we have upgraded Omnitrack’s workflows. This upgrade improves many aspects of the system and simplifies workflows without changing any of the current functionality. The new version will feel instantly familiar and straightforward to existing […]
Competition law policy template
Businesses have a responsibility and a legal obligation to follow competition law and ensure staff have the knowledge and understanding to do that. Companies should regularly update such policies. Staff should be made aware that failure to adhere to their company’s competition law policy could result in large fines and criminal charges against individual employees […]
Are your Employees Travelling Safely?
When most business people think about travel, they think about the challenge to get employees to travel on-budget and effectively, so no time or money is wasted. However, every trip also represents a risk, and organisations must consider how they protect the health and safety of employees when they are away from the office and […]
