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A LABOUR MP launched a bid yesterday to enshrine EU employment protections in British law.
The Star reported last week how the European Communities Act, which contains workers’ rights, will have to be repealed to trigger Brexit.
Grimsby MP Melanie Onn presented a ten minute rule Bill to ensure that rights to annual leave, protection against unfair dismissal and equal rights for agency workers are maintained.
The former trade union organiser said: “Theresa May has put the most right-wing, Thatcherite Tories into top jobs in her new government, and Brexit gives them the opportunity to abandon the employment protections people in Britain have enjoyed for decades.
“My Bill will protect in British law the rights workers currently enjoy thanks to the European Union. People voted to leave the EU, but I don’t believe they did so because they want less rights or a less safe workplace.”
