There will be no Brexit bonfire of UK employment laws. The matches have been put back in the box, for the time being at least. The government has massively watered down its ambitions for replacing or removing thousands of EU laws and the December timetable it imposed.
The U-turn will mean only several hundred laws, publicly announced by the government ahead of time, will now be subject to the so-called ‘sunset clause’ which would have automatically deleted every EU law which hadn’t already been reviewed.
Announcing the decision, the government said the new approach would allow it to more properly target areas in need of reform and also ensure no unintentional removing of safety regulations. However, it doesn’t mean business as usual when it comes to employment law. Change is on its way which will impact businesses in Lancashire.
Surveying the landscape, Alison Driver, managing director of Rawtenstall based Metis HR, says there is still “much uncertainty” and it remains a watching and waiting game for all employers.
She says: “There is much hype around impending changes to employment law. In reality, although there are changes coming, only a few changes are certain, the rest are still not confirmed.”
The government’s policy paper ‘Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy’ which it published in May, sets out the direction of travel with changes to three elements of employment law.
First up is Working Time Regulations, where the proposal is to remove retained EU case law...
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