Corporate compliance

New and updated

• Type:

  Consultations

  Consultation on establishing a new single enforcement body for employment rights

  Updated to include a reference to the Government's response to the consultation.

• 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:

  11 March 2021

  Type:

  News

  Modern slavery statement registry launched

  A central registry for modern slavery statements has been launched by the Home Office in a bid to improve transparency and invite scrutiny over what organisations are doing to prevent slavery in their supply chains.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

  Updated to highlight that the Government has launched its online modern slavery statement registry.

• 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?

• Date:

  22 September 2020

  Type:

  News

  Government to mandate areas modern slavery statements should cover

  Organisations will be required to regularly publish their modern slavery statements via a new government reporting service and must be transparent about how they conduct their risk assessments and due diligence.

• 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.