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TORY plans to “rush the sunsetting” of EU laws by the end of 2023 will endanger the workplace rights of more than eight million people, a leading think tank warns today.
The Work Foundation said that protections for part-time, fixed-term and agency staff will be in the greatest jeopardy if the government presses ahead with post-Brexit plans to amend, replace or scrap thousands of pieces of EU legislation by December 31.
Working time directives and paid holiday entitlements are among the regulations that could be weakened by the Retained EU Law Bill currently going through Parliament, the Lancaster University-based organisation said.
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR