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The Retained EU Law Bill is a disaster in the making
A wide range of employment and health and safety rights derived from EU law were kept after Brexit — but now we must defend these workers’ rights from the Tory bonfire, writes TONY BURKE
EXPLOITATION AHEAD: Outrages like the P&O scandal are a taste of what employers will attempt if unencumbered by our hard-won workplace rights
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THE Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will scrap over 2,400 pieces of EU legislation currently transposed into UK laws as part of the government’s “Brexit dividend.”
The Bill will, if implemented, wipe out hard-won employment rights that are incorporated into many union agreements and workers’ contracts.
The TUC says the Bill “will cause enormous confusion and chaos for working people and their employers at a particularly difficult time for the economy, and poses a significant threat to workers’ rights. The Bill, if enacted, will sweep away thousands of pieces of legislation and upend decades-worth of case law.”
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