Ten steps to preventing sexual harassment in your workplace

Sexual harassment at work

The month of October 2018  saw an alarming number of allegations of sexual harassment. This includes the demise of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, Netflix cutting ties with actor Kevin Spacey and the spread of allegations to Westminster.

With a BBC survey finding half of women in the UK and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or at a place of study, it is clear managers must promote a culture whereby staff can bring up any concerns of sexual harassment in the knowledge that they will be heard and dealt with.

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Knowledge checks – create your own five minute courses

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A knowledge check is a short course that helps users refresh their knowledge on key compliance topics

When it comes to compliance training, ensuring your staff trains on the topics most relevant to both your organisation’s needs and their role can be a challenge. For example, when carrying out GDPR training, those in marketing will need training that focusses on processing data and dealing with subject access requests. IT professionals, on the other hand, need to focus on data security and technical measures. While our modular GDPR training is fully customisable and can be configured into over 1,000 versions, customised refresher training is also a key part in ensuring the knowledge has not been forgotten.

VinciWorks has therefore created a tool that allows businesses to create a short course, known as a knowledge check, from scratch that can be rolled out to their whole staff, specific departments or a member of staff in a particular role.

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The IT department’s guide to GDPR

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Internet technology departments are extremely valuable when it comes to data protection compliance for an organisation. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) ensures that consumer and employee data is more secure than ever. What does that mean for the IT department? They must be careful when collecting and analysing information online. Any information collected that can be used to distinguish one individual from another is personal data. 

To help organisations and IT departments understand what is required from them, VinciWorks has published a host of data protection resources including one specific to internet technology as well as many others. Understanding how to safely and securely collect and analyse data will ensure you meet all compliance guidelines as well as keep your consumers and employees protected.

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The guide to risk based third party due diligence

Risk assessment clip boardWhen your organisation is using third parties, it is essential to complete your own due diligence equal to the risk faced from the said relationship. With businesses and partnerships around the world growing, it is essential to make sure all your relationships and third parties are legal and legitimate. VinciWorks’ guide to risk based third party due diligence will give you a clearer understanding of how to conduct a detailed and genuine risk assessment.

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Anti-money laundering – a guide to customer due diligence

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Under the Fourth Money Laundering Directive, CDD is required by anyone trading goods in cash with a value over €10,000, down from previous amount of €15,000

Customer Due Diligence and Anti-Money Laundering

Ensuring your staff are able to carry out effective customer due diligence goes a long way to ensuring your staff and clients are not are not facilitating money laundering. Such processes to be aware of and understand include submitting a suspicious activity report (SAR), understanding what is required to take a risk based approach and the supporting documents that should be requested from clients. Here is some guidance to carrying out customer due diligence and how to deal with potential red flags.

The guidance is taken from our interactive e-learning course, Anti-Money Laundering: Know Your Risk. You can demo the course for free here. The course is in line with the Fourth and Fifth Money Laundering Directive and will be updated when the Fifth Directive comes into force.

What is customer due diligence?

Customer due diligence is the process of identifying your customers and checking they are who they say they are. In practice, this means obtaining a customer’s name, photograph on an official document which confirms their identity and residential address and date of birth. There are three levels of customer due diligence: standard, simplified and enhanced.

Learn more: VinciWorks’ AML client onboarding and ongoing monitoring software solution

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What’s in the new Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018?

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The new allows for the UK to add or remove people, entities and organisations from targeted sanctions list if there are reasonable grounds to suspect involvement in activities that can trigger sanctions

The UK parliament recently enacted a new piece of sanctions and money laundering legislation designed to Brexit-proof the UK’s ability to implement international and European sanctions. To help organisations comply, VinciWorks has released a brand new scenario based training course Sanctions: Know Your Transaction. Following the success of our anti-bribery and anti-money laundering training, this course drops users into a set of immersive scenarios to test their knowledge, understanding and ability to comply with the new sanctions law.

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Are public beneficial ownership registers coming to the Crown Dependencies?

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UK’s Sanctions and AML Act 2018

The UK’s Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act 2018 is a legislative framework that strengthens the country’s ability to implement sanctions and AML measures. The act provides the legal basis for the UK government to impose and enforce sanctions on individuals, entities, and countries deemed to pose a threat to national security or involved in illicit activities. The act expands the powers of the relevant authorities to investigate, prevent, and prosecute money laundering offences and reinforces cooperation and information sharing between public and private sectors.

Impact of UK’s Sanctions and AML Act 2018 on Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories

Impact of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering 2018 Act on the Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

Following an amendment to the recently enacted Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act which will introduce public ownership registers in British Overseas Territories, the amendments sponsors Andrew Mitchell and Dame Margaret Hodge will visit the Isle of Man to persuade the government to create a publicly accessible register of beneficial ownership.

Currently, the Manx Government’s central register is only accessible to law enforcement and tax officials, but the UK government is keen for the Crown Dependencies to adopt the approach being set out in the EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive.

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The VinciWorks knowledge check series

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The GDPR knowledge check presents instant feedback after the user has answered a question

Verify and assess your staff’s knowledge of key compliance areas such as GDPR, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and cyber security with our new series of five-minute knowledge checks. Each knowledge check presents 10 questions, with feedback automatically given after each question is answered. Distribute the knowledge checks across your organisation to evaluate the level of understanding, allowing you to decide on next steps for training procedures. Feedback is given after each question is answered, allowing users to improve their knowledge while completing the assessment.

The knowledge checks are included in the licence of any training suite relating to that topic and are available immediately. To learn more, contact us.

Free knowledge check demos

Below are just some of the demos to our knowledge checks. Alternatively, view our full suite here.

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The anti-bribery resource page

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Does your organisation have everything in place to ensure it is complying with the Bribery Act 2010? Do you have the latest anti-bribery policies in place to ensure your staff are aware of internal procedures? VinciWorks has created an anti-bribery resource page that includes a host of free anti-bribery compliance tools and resources.

The resource page includes:

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Anti-bribery contract clause templates

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Anti-bribery contract clause overview

An anti-bribery clause can be included in a contract whereby the parties commit to comply with certain rules, in this case anti-bribery rules, and understand that if these rules are violated, the contract will no longer be valid. Such clauses help maintain trust between parties and prevent corruption in both the negotiation and the performance of the contract. 

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