The Government has published guidance on workplace rights if there’s no Brexit deal, to inform businesses and workers of the plans to continue protections if the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement. The guidance states that a ‘no deal’ scenario remains unlikely given the mutual interests of the UK and the EU in securing a negotiated outcome. The guidance, however, confirms that after 29 March 2019, if there’s ‘no deal’, the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 brings across the powers from EU Directives, meaning that that workers in the UK will continue to be entitled to the rights they have under UK law, covering those aspects which come from EU law which are listed, with the exception for some minor issues.

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