During Christmas often business clients and providers of goods and services exchange gifts (food hampers, chocolates, bottle of bubbly). There adds festive cheer and when these gifts arrive they are given and received in a transparent manner.

However, during COVID when working at home – the line can be blurred if given a gift sent to a personal address with a lavish gift with the specific expectation that orders will continue in the New Year – which would be a bribe. 

Deborah Scales Employment Associate at Clarkslegal discusses some special considerations employers might need to give to the Bribery Act 2010 and receiving corporate Christmas gifts.