UK Knowledge Collection | Employment rights reforms, infrastructure strategy and energy sector, and rent review webinar
Published on 4th July 2025
Welcome to this week's Knowledge Collection
The government has published its roadmap for implementing the Employment Rights Bill. Our employment team looks at the proposed timeline for the reforms and associated consultations, and at what this might mean for employers. Our workforce solutions team considers the implications for suppliers and users of contingent workforces in light of the significant reforms proposed in that area.
The "UK infrastructure: a 10 year strategy" policy paper, published last month, places emphasis on clean and nuclear energy as part of an effort to introduce a culture of long-term planning, regulatory clarity and regional distribution to UK's ongoing energy transition. Our Insight looks at some of the elements affecting the energy industry.
Our webinar next week, aimed at both landlords and tenants, discusses the impact of minimum energy efficiency standards and energy performance certificates on rent reviews, service charges and tenant improvements, and how MEES and EPCs intersect with business rates.
Recent Insights
Data (Use and Access) Act becomes law with first changes to UK GDPR
Some of the more interesting changes include those in relation to automated decision making, research use of data, legitimate interests processing and some useful exceptions to the current PECR regime regulating use of cookies and tracking.
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Procurement Act 2023 introduces new mandatory exclusion grounds from UK public bids for tax penalties
Suppliers are at increased risk of being excluded from bidding for public contracts in relation to tax non-compliance in their supply chains.
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Employment Law Coffee Break
Our update for employers covers the government's plans for implementation of its Employment Rights Bill, the new corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud, and managing the risk of psychiatric injury to employees in disciplinary proceedings.
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What does the UK government's 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy mean for the energy sector?
The government's policy paper emphasises long-term planning and the infrastructure sector's importance for future economic growth.
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Environmental marketplaces: EU and UK head towards copycat ETSs and CBAMs
Importers and exporters may welcome the news that the UK and EU have agreed to work towards linking their respective emissions trading schemes.
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Upcoming Events
Understanding MEES, EPCs, and business rates: implications for rent reviews, service charges, and tenant improvements
10 July | 09:30-10:15
Our webinar incudes how minimum energy efficiency standards and energy performance certificates intersect with business rates, considerations for landlords and tenants on who bears the costs, recent case law, and mitigation strategies.
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