McAz wrote:Guest wrote:If the deal to leave was very bad, would you take it even if it costs everyone many thousands of pou basic humannds a year and was a disaster for the UK? Yes or No?
Of course he would - the far-right's agenda has always been to make the UK an offshore neo-nasty state - the socially progressive EU which guarantees basic rights, standards and conditions is an obstacle to their authoritarian dream. Fortunately we have Scotland which will work to impede them at every turn.
Prominent Brexiteer Priti Patel MP joined the growing number of her colleagues who’ve let the Leave campaign’s cats out of their bags yesterday, in her speech to the Institute of Directors.
“If we could just halve the burdens of the EU social and employment legislation we could deliver a £4.3 billion boost to our economy and 60,000 new jobs.”
Now, we certainly don’t accept her claims on jobs or economic benefits to this kind of deregulation (it rather reminds us of right wing claims on how the minimum wage would cost a million jobs, when it did the opposite), but we were particularly struck by her hostile attitude to employment protections.
These “burdens” viewed from working people’s end of the telescope are actually protections that we’re understandably very keen on. Other Brexit leaders have pooh-poohed our suggestions that they might be for the chop if we leave the EU, and lose the underpinning of EU law in our own employment rights legislation.
Last month, we asked Michael Ford QC for an independent legal opinion on the consequences of Brexit for UK employment law and workers’ rights (you can read the whole thing here).
Looking over the many rights that are guaranteed by the EU, and our government’s past form and public policy documents, he suggested the protections that would be most vulnerable are:
Collective consultation, including the right for workers’ representatives to be consulted on major changes that will change jobs or result in redundancies (as we’ve seen recently in our crisis-hit steel industry).
Working Time Directive rules, including rules on excessive hours, breaks and the amount of holiday pay you’re entitled to.
EU-derived health and safety regulations.
Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE), the protections to your terms and conditions if your job is transferred or outsourced to a new employer.
Protections for agency workers and other ‘atypical’ workers, such as part-time workers.
Current levels of compensation for discrimination of all kinds, including equal pay awards and age discrimination.
So is that Priti Patel’s hit list of our rights that she’d like to do away with?
http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2016/05/le ... ts-brexit/and that mix to the Tories ripping up our freedoms ffs