The Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch MP, has today issued a written statement announcing that the Government will replace the current sunset in the Retained EU Law Bill with a list of the retained EU laws that it intends to revoke under the Bill at the end of 2023. Other laws will remain on the statute books until there is time for proper assessment and consultation.
Ms Badenoch MP has also announced that the first in a series of reform packages aimed at ‘leveraging post-Brexit regulatory freedoms’ will address employment law ‘where there is an opportunity to improve regulation following our departure from the EU, whilst maintaining UK labour standards which are some of the highest in the world’.
The policy paper here sets out the following proposals; legislation will be introduced ‘when Parliamentary time allows’.
Non-compete clauses
The Government proposes limiting the length of non-compete clauses to 3 months. The policy paper states that this will not interfere with the ability of employers to use (paid) notice periods or garden leave, non-solicitation clauses or confidentiality clauses (though it does not mention non-dealing clauses). This follows a consultation on a broader range of possible reforms in 2020-2021 (see our blog post here). With so little detail available, there are considerably more questions than answers at this stage (for example, to what extent will it apply retrospectively to existing contracts, will...
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