Corporate compliance

New and updated

• More model policies and documents now GDPR-compliant

  Date:

  22 March 2018

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We have revised our model policies and documents on the right to request flexible working, time off work, retirement, bribery and whistleblowing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is in force from 25 May 2018.

• Anti-bribery policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• Form for an employee to report bribery

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• Personal transactions and inducements: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the rules on personal transactions and gifts and inducements under MiFID II, effective from 3 January 2018.

• Consultation on revised UK corporate governance code

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Financial Reporting Council consults on a revised UK code of corporate governance.

• Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect amendments on 4 October 2017 to the Government's guidance on producing a statement, covering sign-off at board level, online retention of historic statements and voluntary reporting by smaller organisations.

• Bribery

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Updated with information on trends in complying in bribery regulation.

• New corporate offence of failing to prevent facilitation of tax evasion

  Date:

  27 September 2017

  Type:

  News

  A new criminal corporate offence of failing to prevent facilitation of tax evasion comes into effect on 30 September 2017.

• What is the corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Modern slavery statements: September deadline looms

  Date:

  14 September 2017

  Type:

  News

  Large employers with a financial year running from April to March should be gearing up to publish their second annual modern slavery statement by the end of September 2017.