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More uncertainty lies ahead for employers and employees ahead of a crucial Brexit deadline, writes KAREN HARVIE.
Restrictions on doctors’ working hours must not be watered down as part of post-Brexit legislative changes, the BMA has said.
Report shared with POLITICO urges UK to keep pace with Brussels. / Britain must not "rip up" protections for workers as a government review considers doing away with EU laws carried over post Brexit, according to a new report.
UK policy was recently ruled in breach of its obligations under the European Social Charter but has yet to be changed
Provisions for sick, jobless and self-employed are ‘manifestly inadequate’, European Committee of Social Rights finds.
The UK has ditched plans for a Brexit "bonfire" of retained EU law, with Rishi Sunak being accused of breaking his promises by a former Cabinet minister.
We have reached a watershed moment in the long Brexit saga. The government’s U-turn this week on the Great Repeal Bill has laid bare the great elephant-sized conundrum that has always been at the heart of Brexit: identifying any significant EU laws that were both holding Britain back and can be ditched without damaging our own economy.
Ministers have been accused of pushing for post-Brexit trade deals with more than a dozen countries around the world that do not guarantee workers’ rights or systematically violate employee protections.
Labour expresses concern as government defeats efforts to enshrine food safety and animal welfare standards in UK law
A Tory peer recently ennobled by Boris Johnson has urged the prime minister to remove EU consumer and worker protections now that Brexit has happened.
THE UK Government “could be genuinely torn” between maintaining its Brexit deal and further undermining workers’ rights after a warning from Brussels on the Tories’ anti-strike laws.
Conservative MPs have abstained on a motion to protect holiday pay, paid breaks, the 48-hour working week limit and legislation that bans firing and rehiring.
Ministers have scrapped their promise for a post-Brexit ‘bonfire’ of EU-era laws by the end of this year.
For working people in Britain, her deal doesn’t take back control: it allows the Tories to take it away
Just in time for Trump’s UK visit, Channel 4’s Dispatches looked at the food standard implications of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
Dispatches goes undercover in a major US poultry processing plant to investigate chlorinated chicken, which is being pushed as part of a post-Brexit US trade deal
The negotiations which will set our relationship with our closest neighbours for the next generation are being rushed in a reckless game of chicken.
Voters were promised better-funded public services and stronger employment rights after Brexit – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are now offering us the opposite, reports Adam Bienkov.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has published a list of nine ‘Brexit opportunities’. It’s both pitiful and dangerous.
Wednesday marks exactly five years on from the Brexit referendum and the country is still torn over our exit from the EU. A new poll finds that if the vote was re-run now the result would be a narrow win for Remain – by 51% to 49%.
The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.
IoD and unions among groups writing to government, saying move would cause business chaos, harm rights and threaten environment.
Safeguards over data, pay and conditions, GM foods, hedge funds and disposal of old vehicles should all be binned, Daniel Hannan says.
Richard Corbett, former Labour MEP, linguist, author and fluent and well-informed speaker will explain the background to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and discuss the fallout. There are numerous consequences of Brexit which are not receiving sufficient publicity. Leaving the EU came at a huge cost to the UK economically, culturally and in terms of our standing in the world.