Criminal Finances Act coming into force 30th September
On 30th September 2017, the Criminal Finances Act comes into force, as does the requirement for businesses to have reasonable procedures to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. The law is broad and the net is wide; a business can be prosecuted if a contractor puts a client in touch with a dodgy accountant or […]
Work-Related Stress and Employer Responsibilities
9.9 million working days were lost in the UK in 2014/15 due to one thing: work-related stress. This means that – for one year – stress in the workplace cost the UK economy nearly £5.5 billion. Is your organisation doing enough to tackle the problem? What causes work-related stress? Work-related stress develops when an employee […]
Download a free tax evasion policy template
Are your staff sufficiently prepared for the Criminal Finances Act? Ensuring everyone is familiar with your organisations’ procedures to prevent facilitation of tax evasion will go a long way to protect your company from prosecution. We have therefore created a tax evasion code of conduct policy template based on the Criminal Finances Act that can easily be […]
The Skills Gap Threatening GDPR: How eLearning can Help
A skills gap refers to the space between what employers want or need their employees to be able to achieve, and what employees actually have the know-how and experience to do. At the moment, there seems to be unrest in the UK regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the amount of cyber-security and data-handling professionals that […]
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Shocking Scale of UK Modern Slavery
The Modern Slavery Act was introduced into law in 2015; the new legislation combined previous slavery and trafficking laws and also increased the maximum jail term for human traffickers from 14 years to potential life behind bars. The Act was an obvious effort to crack-down on Modern Slavery and to cast light on the subject, […]
What is a Workplace Risk Assessment and when do you need one?
Risk assessments are a fundamental requirement for businesses. Employers who are unaware of the hazards and risks within their organisation may be putting their employees, customers, the general public and their business in danger. A work[lace risk assessment is a systematic process of examining a particular work-related job, task or activity, to identify any possible […]
What are the consequences of neglecting Health and Safety Training?
A recent survey claims to have uncovered Great Britain’s most dangerous jobs … and with some surprising results. The findings, conducted by business insurance broker ‘Simply Business’, indicated…
Cyber Attacks: Why Prevention is Better than the Cure
The Cyber Governance Health Check assesses and reports levels of cyber security awareness and preparedness in FTSE 350 companies (i.e., the UK’s 350 largest firms). The report allows these leading organisations to compare how security risks are managed and helps them to identify and address their different vulnerabilities. According to the latest figures from the […]
New course – Tax Evasion: Failure to Prevent corporate version
VinciWorks has just released a new version of its tax evasion course specifically geared to the corporate sector. While the first version of Tax Evasion: Failure to Prevent is tailored for businesses in the regulated sector, the new version has been modified to better accommodate scenarios that often face companies in non-regulated industries. Key changes More […]