Corporate compliance

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

  Updated to highlight the significance of 30 June and 30 September 2022 for large employers that are required to publish modern slavery statements.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Requirement to disclose climate-related information introduced

  The Regulations introduce a requirement for some companies to provide climate-related financial disclosures in their strategic report.

• Date:

  8 November 2021

  Type:

  Law reports

  Unfair dismissal: Manager's approval of golf trip was gross misconduct

  In Thompson v Informatica Software Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employee's dismissal for authorising the cost of a golf trip for a customer, in breach of the employer's anti-corruption policy, was fair.

• Date:

  8 June 2021

  Type:

  News

  Workers' rights watchdog to be launched

  The Government has confirmed it will launch a single enforcement body to protect workers' rights and clamp down on unscrupulous employment practices.

• Date:

  1 February 2021

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employment law changes: Seven major proposals that may progress in 2021

  Many proposed employment law changes that the Government has put forward in the last few years have stalled, mainly as a result of the focus on Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. Which proposals could be resurrected in 2021 and what would they mean for employers?

• Date:

  4 November 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Modern slavery statement changes: What will employers have to do differently?

  The Government has confirmed that it is going ahead with major changes to the duty on large employers to publish an annual modern slavery statement. What changes will employers have to make to the content of, and process for publishing, their statement and which additional employers will be covered?

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Personal transactions and inducements: financial services

  Updated to include information on the FCA's findings on the implementation of the rules on research unbundling.

• Type:

  Good practice manual

  Implementing effective bribery prevention procedures

  Updated with further information on the data protection implications of monitoring employees’ emails.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Anti-bribery policy

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for an employee to report bribery

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.