Boris Johnson’s Business Department plans to dump rules governing the 48-hour week and rest breaks at work. According to a leak to the Financial Times newspaper Ministers are drawing up proposals that could mean longer working weeks and not including overtime pay when calculating some holiday pay entitlements.The post-Brexit plan comes despite numerous pledges by Boris Johnson that quitting the EU would not undermine rules protecting working hours.Labour’s Ed Miliband said the party would fight “tooth and nail” against the plans.
Trade unions reacted with fury and the SNP said independence is the only way to protect workers’ rights in Scotland. Miliband, the Shadow Business Secretary, said: “Conservative Ministers promised time and again.
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