UK anti-strike rules may breach international law, MPs and peers warn

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on a picket line outside Liverpool Lime Street station in the summer. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Workers in some public sector jobs will be completely prevented from striking under restrictive rules that may breach international law, parliament’s watchdog on human rights has said.

The joint committee on human rights, chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, has written to the government expressing “serious concerns” about its new minimum service levels regulations covering the border force, railways and the NHS.