{"id":68850,"date":"2018-11-26T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/26\/mays-brexit-deal-gambles-with-our-rights-at-work-nobody-voted-for-that-jason-moyer-lee\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:46:06","slug":"mays-brexit-deal-gambles-with-our-rights-at-work-nobody-voted-for-that-jason-moyer-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68850","title":{"rendered":"May\u2019s Brexit deal gambles with our rights at work. Nobody voted for that | Jason Moyer-Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement leaves wide open the future of EU protections on discrimination at work, equal pay and paid holidaysOf the various ways in which Brexit represents a threat to workers\u2019 rights, the loss of EU employment law is one of the gravest. EU law \u2013 which covers everything from discrimination at work to equal pay and paid holidays \u2013 is important not just because in some cases it introduces rights that didn\u2019t previously exist, but also because in effect it supersedes domestic law, and is subject to a European court that, on the whole, interprets the law more favourably for workers than British courts do.And unless done through EU structures, a rightwing majority in the UK will currently struggle to remove EU legal rights, notwithstanding their ardent desire to cut all that red tape. In recognition of the protections EU law provides at work, the prime minister has previously promised that these wouldn\u2019t be lost as a result of Brexit. And yet, despite all the heated rhetoric and pontification about Theresa May\u2019s Brexit deal, not much has been said about its implications for workers\u2019 rights. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/nov\/26\/theresa-may-brexit-deal-rights-at-work-eu-protections\" target=\"_blank\">May\u2019s Brexit deal gambles with our rights at work. Nobody voted for that | Jason Moyer-Lee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement leaves wide open the future of EU protections on discrimination at work, equal pay and paid holidaysOf the various ways in which Brexit represents a threat to workers\u2019 rights, the loss of EU employment law is one of the gravest. EU law \u2013 which covers everything from discrimination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}