Bribery

A senior manager at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant accepted bribes including an £11,000 quad bike, a tribunal hearing has revealed.

Controversy surrounding ministers accepting gifts reminds us how employers can be liable for employees’ actions around bribery.

A street cleaner who was denied the proceeds of a fundraising campaign has been ‘gifted’ a holiday by a package company.

The rules around behaviour of senior civil servants and politicians must be tougher, according to recommendations from the Committee on...

For many, the notion of a cartel may conjure up images of Columbian drug barons, but UK businesses need to...

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

High-profile cases involving self-employed drivers for the likes of Uber and Deliveroo have focused heavily on employment status and rights....

Rolls-Royce last week agreed to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the US justice...

Legislation will be introduced to hold firms criminally liable if they fail to stop employees who facilitate tax cheating, the...

An employment tribunal held that an immigration officer was fairly dismissed for accepting a bribe from an offender, despite then...

As Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal spreads to its petrol engines, Christopher Tutton outlines how companies should be examining their own...

Employers will soon be required to publish a modern slavery statement setting out how they protect against slavery in their...

As globalisation continues, many employers with a multi-jurisdictional presence are introducing global HR policies that apply across their international business....

Employee secondments can benefit employers as a means of developing good business relationships and sharing and enhancing employees’ skills. At...

When an allegation of serious misconduct hits the desk, an employer’s first instinct may be to implement the disciplinary procedure...