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Brexit effect on workplace rights

19 September 2018
Issue: 7809 / Categories: Legal News , Brexit , Employment
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The government has promised Brexit won’t affect employment rights—but under what timescale? Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Pigott, professional support lawyer at Mills & Reeve, examines the assurances that have been given and concludes that, deal or no deal, there is unlikely to be a major impact. In the longer term, however, he writes, ‘there is no doubt that the looser the long-term relationship the UK has with the EU, the greater the scope there will be for divergence between the UK and the EU in relation to employment rights currently derived from the EU’.

Issue: 7809 / Categories: Legal News , Brexit , Employment
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