In a move that had been anticipated for some time, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, announced in a ministerial statement yesterday that the wholesale ‘sunsetting’ of EU derived legislation on 31 December that was proposed by the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL Bill) was to be abandoned. Acknowledging that the proposals had caused ‘legal uncertainty’ for businesses, the Secretary of State confirmed instead that the government will publish this week a list of approximately 550 pieces of legislation that will be revoked by the end of 2023, with all remaining EU law staying on the statute book for the time being at least.
Questions as to what this would mean for UK employment law were answered, in part, by the publication the same day of the policy paper Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy, which states the government’s intention to ‘cut red tape for businesses and save 1 billion per year whilst safeguarding the rights of workers’. The policy paper proposes changes to two pieces of EU-derived law, together with an additional proposal in respect of non-compete provisions:
Working time
The policy paper confirms that the government will consult on removing the retained EU law that requires businesses to keep records of daily working time for almost all members of the workforce (enacted in the UK by regulation 9 of the Working Time Regulations), claiming that this will save businesses 1 billion per year. How businesses will be...
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