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Workers’ rights at risk from Great Repeal Bill
May is ‘breaking her promise’ over rights as Bill allows judges to change EU laws

THERESA MAY has been accused of breaking her promise to protect EU-derived workers’ rights after the government’s Brexit white paper proposes giving judges the power to change them.

Thousands of items of EU legislation are to be scrapped or replaced with equivalents under the Great Repeal Bill, announced yesterday by Brexit Secretary David Davis.

And moves to let judges, not Parliament, have the power to change workers’ rights currently enshrined in EU law were condemned by trade unionists as a betrayal by the Prime Minister.

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