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Employment law: a chance for change? (Pt 2)

03 March 2023 / Simon Fennell
Issue: 8015 / Categories: Features , Employment , EU , Brexit
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Eyeing up further opportunities for improvements to employment law following the revocation of retained EU law, Simon Fennell targets the Working Time Regulations & Agency Workers Regulations
  • UK employers could benefit from changes to the Working Time Regulations 1998, including re-examining limits around the 48-hour working week, annual leave and pay, and general holiday.
  • The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 could potentially be removed from UK law altogether.

In the second part in this series, we take a look at the possible changes that could be made to improve the Working Time Regulations 1998, SI 1998/1833 (WTR 1998) and the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, SI 2010/93 (AWR 2010), following the sunsetting of retained EU legislation under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. Part 1 considered the limitations and challenges of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE), and the potential for improvements to be made (see ‘Employment law: a chance for change? (Pt 1)’, NLJ, 17 February 2023,

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