The Government has dropped the most controversial aspect of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill meaning that there will be no wholesale revocation of EU derived law (which includes large swathes of UK employment law) at the end of this year.
However, we are beginning to see some minor but consequential changes to employment law as the Government attempts to simplify what it sees as burdensome regulatory requirements on businesses.
Retained EU (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Dubbed the "Brexit Freedoms Bill", the Retained EU Law Bill will give Government ministers significant powers to change or revoke what is thought to be nearly 4,000 pieces of "Retained EU Law", including some of our key employment regulations.
Retained EU law was created by the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 which preserved EU-derived law that applied to the UK as at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020.
Under the Bill, Government ministers will have three options to deal with Retained EU Law:
Restate: this would preserve the EU law as a UK law.
Revoke: this wipes the law from the UK statute book without an equivalent law being put in its place.
Replace: this replaces the EU law with a UK version, but crucially, the UK version cannot create additional regulatory burdens.
Retained EU Law that is restated or replaced will become known as Assimilated Law.
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