Life for HR advisors is difficult enough as it already, isn’t it? Cost of living and inflation, a shortage of qualified employees and a wide range of employment laws which are not simple to interpret and advise upon.

Well, I am sorry to tell you but it may just about to get even worse.

The government’s Retained EU Law Reform and Revocation Bill, if it becomes law, is going to turn off vast swathes of employment law that are derived from Europe unless the government acts otherwise.

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Now, the government says that it will make sure that it will keep the regulations on which we advise every day – no abolition of holiday pay, of transfers under TUPE, of fixed-term or part-time workers’ rights or parental leave rights they say because the regulations will stay.

The government says that it will not turn these regulations off and preserve them – that it does not wish to strip workers of their rights.

So far, maybe so good, but the government does not appear to understand the effect of the other clauses in the bill which will create employment law uncertainty and a huge pool of HR advisors unable to advise as to what any of the regulations mean.

This is because the bill also tuns off three principles of EU law at the end of 2023. Lawyers call them 'direct effect', 'supremacy of EU law' and the 'general principles of EU law'.

So what? – this is all EU law that the government wants to depart from? Of course, we at The Employment Lawyers’ Association,...

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