After a week of accusations and counter accusations about the mood of a recent dinner discussion between Jean-Claude Juncker and Theresa May, there seems to be a divergence of opinion in the way Brexit talks will go! However, British business can’t sit waiting for the inevitable to happen – especially when planning for growth. And growth means people management! HR180 Mission Control thought it timely to have a look at the influence the EU has had on Employment Law and how that may change in the future. Here’s some key points.
Attribution: This is taken from the House of Commons Library
The basic starting point has been that EU employment law has provided a minimum standard below which UK employment law mustn’t fall.
Where we have already had existing domestic employment rights in law, in those cases EU law has simply entrenched those laws – such as race discrimination and maternity provision – with new laws coming out of EU obligations eg agency workers’ rights and limitations on working time.
To put it bluntly (!) a post-Brexit government MAY seek to amend or remove ANY EU law. As you would expect this would be subject to the provisions of the EU withdrawal arrangements or subsequent trade agreement.
That withdrawal from the EU may mean that UK employment rights currently guaranteed by EU law would no longer be guaranteed.
As of yesterday there is not an actual ‘Government’ as we start the countdown to the next General Election. Prior to this the position was that:
With just 7 weeks to go to the General Election for 2017 as we publish, everything may change if May is no longer PM…we will be back once the dust has settled but meanwhile pick up the phone if we can clarify any points above or indeed help you with your people planning.
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