Say cheerio to your employment rights

Workers will lose key employment rights after Brexit – including rules that protect employees during the takeover of British firms by foreign companies according to the government it cannot guarantee E.U employee rights after Brexit. 

Conservative Ministers this week refused to say whether the Acquired Rights Directive 2001/23/EC would be incorporated into British law after Brexit. The EU directive requires that companies bought out by other firms safeguard jobs of the workers in the taken over firm during takeovers.

Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary called on the Prime Minister to give a “cast-iron guarantee” to workers whose job are threatened by the discarding of the legislation.

“We've consistently raised concerns that Brexit could be used by the Conservatives as a means to further erode workers' rights and this ambiguous, non-committal response from the Minister offers little comfort to GMB members, workers or the British people,” he said.

“The Prime Minister needs to give a cast-iron guarantee that workers' rights will be protected during the negotiations.”

This will only be the beginning all workers’ rights will come under threat and disappear. Rights such as the working time directive, maternity and paternity rights, sick pay and holiday pay. The conservatives have already changed the law regarding trade unions rights and there powers.

This will be music to the ears of billionaire business owners such as Mike Ashley the owner of sports Direct have already being getting rich by treating  workers like slave labour and paying them less than the minimum wage and exploiting them with the use of zero hour contracts. The rich will get richer off the back of poor slave labour plebs who won’t have any choice or rights.

Once Scotland is taken out of the E.U against its will the cost of living will increase the wages will go down and we will all be working sixty hours a week on minimum wage. We will be too scared to even fart in the workplace, let alone take a day of sick in fear of being sacked with no redundancy after 20 years in the job.