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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Tories accused of 'workers rights plot' after scuppering bid to stop them expiring

Tory MPs have been accused of “plotting to slash rights at work” after voting down a bid to stop employment protections expiring after Brexit.

A government bill is set to ‘sunset’ a raft of laws originally written into UK law from the EU in a ‘Brexit bonfire.’

But they include the right to paid holidays, daily and weekly rest breaks, limits on the working week and maternity rights.

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