Diversity, equality and inclusion are deeply held values at VinciWorks. Those values drive us to create products that help organisations promote ethical and inclusive workplace culture. They also instruct our corporate mission to create a safer, fairer and more honest world.
Our work to provide compliance expertise and promote best practice in the area of ESG often involves the seemingly tricky task of tracking diversity data. Finding out who works in the organisation is the first step to increasing talent and representation. A diverse, representative workforce is not merely about looking the part, it helps the organisation thrive.
To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for March 2022 covers a range of new sanctions and money laundering rules as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, new ESG reporting requirements, DAC6 / MDR consultations, employment law developments and updates to UK GDPR via SCCs.
What’s in the Regulatory Agenda?
What’s new this month?
COVID-19 guidance update
EU developments affecting policy and compliance
Recent Acts of Parliament affecting policy and compliance
Following our recent webinar on whistleblowing rules in the UK, EU and US, we have compiled all the questions received with answers.
You can listen to or watch the webinar again (see the link at the bottom of this post), or contact us to find our more about VinciWorks’ whistleblowing solutions including portals, training, and policies.
Whistleblowing is a fundamental part of good governance, and vital for any business concerned about their ESG score. But whistleblowing rules differ widely between countries, with the UK, US, and now the EU Whistleblowing Directive all mandating differing levels of protection for whistleblowers.
Beyond the regulations, many companies face the challenge of how to implement a whistleblowing solution. Organisations can make it easier for staff to whistleblow, boosting their governance credentials and meeting their regulatory obligations as well.
In this webinar, we reviewed the whistleblowing regulations across the US, UK and EU, what the new EU Directive means, and what best practice looks like for whistleblowing compliance.
To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for February 2022 covers new ESG reporting requirements, DAC6 / MDR consultations, employment law developments and possible changes to UK GDPR.
What’s in the Regulatory Agenda?
What’s new this month?
COVID-19 guidance update
EU developments affecting policy and compliance
Recent Acts of Parliament affecting policy and compliance
Carbon literacy means making people aware of the cost of climate change in everyday activities, and how emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere can be reduced with individual, organisational and structural changes.
Carbon literacy is more than just hot air. It focuses teams to understand climate change from a scientific level. Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human life, with climate change already causing severe weather disruption around the world and putting millions of people at risk from extreme weather events. Carbon literacy helps a business to understand what that means, and what can be done.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, compliance departments can still enter the new year with a sense, if not an outline, of what should be on their agenda in 2022. Preparing for rapid, sudden changes in 2022, from new Covid-19 variants to supply chain problems or catastrophic climate events, should still be high on every compliance officer’s agenda. But that doesn’t mean planning for the expected should take a back seat.
In this webinar, our Director of Best Practice Gary Yantin and Director of Learning and Content Nick Henderson looked at the regulatory and compliance horizon for the upcoming year.
They discussed the top items you can expect to see in your regulatory inbox. Change might be a constant in this day and age, but it doesn’t have to be unexpected, unplanned, or catch you unprepared.
The webinar covered:
What will happen with the supply chain crisis
Changes to UK GDPR and a new privacy shield
Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulation is coming to the UK
Nick Henderson is Director of Learning and Content at VinciWorks and has played an important role in developing VinciWorks’ most interactive and customisable courses covering topics such as anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, GDPR, diversity, mental health, health and safety and more. Nick is a policy expert with a background in public, voluntary and private sectors and has expert-level knowledge across a wide range of areas.
As Director of Best Practice at VinciWorks, Gary Yantin works with professional service firms of all sizes to provide the best compliance learning experience for their staff. He was previously an in-house lawyer and a solicitor in private practice. Gary has hosted many webinars and workshops for VinciWorks on a wide range of risk and compliance topics including GDPR and the SRA’s new approach to ongoing learning.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, compliance departments can still enter the new year with a sense, if not an outline, of what should be on their agenda in 2022. Preparing for rapid, sudden changes in 2022, from new Covid-19 variants to supply chain problems or catastrophic climate events, should still be high on every compliance officer’s agenda. But that doesn’t mean planning for the expected should take a back seat.
In this new guide, we discuss the top ten items you should look out for in your regulatory inbox next year. The topics to watch out for are:
Shortages in the supply chain
ESG reporting hits its stride
Health and safety working practices
Vaccine mandates grow
Mental health at home and at work
UK GDPR and a new privacy shield?
Online harms and cyber security
Sarbanes-Oxley is coming to the UK
DAC6 and mandatory disclosure rules
More cryptocurrency regulation
Join us for our webinar on 12 January 2022 where we’ll discuss these compliance issues in more detail. You can register for that webinar here.
2021 saw another successful year for VinciWorks. We haven’t simply done more of what we already do so well, we have also added all-new features to our training, such as the ability to build out every aspect of each course in minutes. Our research and development team have built out multiple new Omnitrack use cases and we are constantly adding new features, the most recent being our DocuSign integration. All our hard work was recognised in October when we were acquired by Marlowe PLC.
Here are some of the highlights from 2021.
755,000 courses delivered
Whether or not your business has reverted to in-office working, has continued with a remote-working policy, or somewhere in between, the pandemic taught us the importance of flexibility. Over the past 2 years, e-learning has supplanted nearly all classroom training. Companies that traditionally ran in-person compliance training have moved over to online learning for good.
The gig economy in Europe, also known as the platform economy or sharing economy, has experienced significant growth in recent years. It refers to a labour market characterised by short-term, flexible, and on-demand work arrangements facilitated by digital platforms. One key aspect of the gig economy in Europe is the prevalence of online platforms that connect workers with customers, such as Uber, Deliveroo, and TaskRabbit. These platforms provide individuals with opportunities to earn income by offering their services in various fields, including transportation, food delivery, and household tasks.
What are gig economy workers?
Gig economy workers, also known as gig workers or platform workers, are individuals who participate in the gig economy. They are typically independent contractors or freelancers who perform short-term, flexible, and on-demand work for various digital platforms or online marketplaces.
