The UK government has announced it will ensure EU equality and discrimination laws are reinstated before they expire at the end of the year, but other EU laws deemed to be a “burden” will now be amended.
According to Sky News, equality elements expected to be kept include maternity law protections for returning mothers and the single source test, which allows for the determination of equal pay claims between workers in different organisations.
The single source test was just one of a number of pieces of EU law due to be abolished or diluted under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act, which unions and legal representatives were worried would lead to an erosion of workers’ rights.
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But the government yesterday put a statutory instrument before Parliament to avoid this.
Sayeem Ahmed, managing director of employment law consultancy, Neathouse Partners, said: “In retaining these laws, the UK government has chosen stability over the bold strokes of legislative change that some had anticipated post-Brexit.”
Speaking to HR magazine, Jim Moore, employee relations expert at HR consultancy Hamilton Nash, said the news would be welcome to employment lawyers and HR practitioners.
He said: “What’s not often talked about, is that if EU laws had been erased en-masse, 50 years of useful case-law for tribunals to refer to would have been thrown out of the window – leaving a massive legal gap.”
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