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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.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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