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THE government has watered down a promise to enshrine workers’ rights and environmental safeguards in law while the Brexit Bill is being prepared to be reintroduced in Parliament this week.
Downing Street suggested that PM Boris Johnson is no longer committed to pledges he made to MPs in October in order to garner their votes in support of his Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), according to the Independent.
Its draft included provisions to ensure that workers’ rights were not weakened after Brexit, but Downing Street refused to confirm that a new draft of the Bill would include them.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons