Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks made by Lord Benyon on 28 February (HL Deb col 205) in which he stated “Defra’s default approach will be to retain EU law unless there is a good reason either to repeal or to reform it”, whether they will apply the same approach to employment rights, including transfers of undertakings, equal pay, paid holidays, unsafe working hours, maternity and parental leave, redundancy consultation, agency and part-time workers’ rights, and other protections.

We are proud of the UK’s record on labour standards, having raised domestic standards over recent years to make them some of the highest in the world.

In leaving the EU we regained the ability to regulate autonomously, and the government is therefore conducting a comprehensive review of all retained EU employment law to ensure that our regulations are tailored to the needs of the UK economy and help create the conditions for economic growth.