On April 7, 2026, the Fair Work Agency (“FWA”) was established as a new single enforcement body for employment rights in the UK, operating under the framework set out in Part 5 of the Employment Rights Act 2025 (“ERA”). In this alert, we provide an overview
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Hannah Edmonds-Camara
Hannah Edmonds-Camara is a founding member of the firm’s Business and Human Rights (BHR) practice and advises on a breadth of BHR and ESG issues. In particular, Hannah has deep experience advising on the development and implementation of global human rights and environmental due diligence programmes, in response to the evolving, global regulatory landscape.
She advises on: compliance with ESG disclosure and due diligence requirements, including the EU’s CSRD and CSDDD; BHR-related investigations and remediation strategies; forced labour import ban regimes (e.g. the EU’s Forced Labour Regulation); responding to complaints raised through non-judicial grievance mechanisms (including OECD National Contact Points); ESG due diligence in an M&A context; global risk assessments; workplace culture reviews; design of project and issue-specific human rights frameworks and stakeholder engagement strategies; and policy engagement on BHR legislative files.
UK Employment Law: Government plans to cut Red Tape for UK Businesses
Introduction
On 10 May, the Department for Business and Trade (the “DBT”) released the regulatory reform update “Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy” – the first in a series of updates on how the government intends to reform regulations to support economic growth. This first package…
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2023 will likely see employment lawyers and HR professionals (in the UK and further afield) grappling with a number of key employment-related legal and policy developments. In this alert we highlight some of the most important ones.
- Brexit: The Employment Law Fallout
When the UK left the European Union on…
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