A major shake-up of Northern Irish employment legislation is on the cards, complicated by there being no functioning Northern Ireland Executive, or Assembly in Northern Ireland.

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Brexit Freedoms Bill) was introduced in the House of Commons on 22 September 2022. The Brexit Freedoms Bill aims to dramatically increase the pace of repealing, restating or replacing EU laws which were retained by the UK when it exited the EU on 31 December 2020.

The UK is already free to remove retained EU law through the normal parliamentary process, but this can be quite slow. The Brexit Freedoms Bill confers extensive powers on the government to remove or replace EU law by means of regulations. This is a much faster process as it significantly curtails Parliament’s ability to scrutinise any proposals. This has been criticised as being “undemocratic.”

We commented in this article about the Brexit Freedoms Bill’s potential implications for employment law in Great Britain. In this article we consider the potential implications of the Brexit Freedoms Bill for employment laws in Northern Ireland, especially in light of the commitments given to protect Good Friday Agreement rights and the EU Directives that underpin those rights.

What does the Brexit Freedoms Bill do?

The Brexit Freedoms Bill:

• “sunsets” EU laws that are currently retained in employment law, which means these laws are revoked, unless they are restated as, or replaced by, UK domestic...

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