Strategic Policy and Compliance Manager – Pubs Code Adjudicator Position Available In Jefferson, Alabama

The Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) was established by the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. Fiona Dickie was reappointed to the role of the Pubs Code Adjudicator in May 2024 for a further three-year term of office. The role of the PCA is to enforce the statutory Pubs Code (the Code) which came into force in July 2016. The Code regulates the relationship between large pub-owning businesses and their tied tenants (a tied tenant is someone who is obliged to buy at least some of their alcohol from their landlord, sometimes with other products or services, usually in return for a reduced rent). The PCA is independent, with powers to arbitrate individual Code disputes and investigate suspected breaches of the Code. You can find out more about the PCA’s first investigation here. The Code applies to pub-owning businesses who own 500 or more tied pubs in England and Wales. Further information on PCA can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/pubs-code-adjudicator

Responsibilites:

The Pubs Code Adjudicator is responsible for monitoring and encouraging compliance with, and enforcing, the Pubs Code.

The PCA:

Works collaboratively, where appropriate, with pub-owning businesses to respond to issues raised by tied tenants and others to bring about beneficial change in the sector Issues advice and guidance which aims to help tied tenants understand what their rights are under the Code and to set out to pub-owning businesses what the PCA’s expectations are regarding Code compliance Monitors compliance with the Code. The PCA can investigate where there is reasonable suspicion that a pub-owning business has breached the Code, with enforcement measures ranging from recommendations to imposing financial penalties on a pub-owning business (or businesses) and Arbitrates and/or appoints others to arbitrate Code disputes between a tied tenant and their pub-owning business.