Workers’ rights seem to be one of the invisible benefits of EU free movement. They arrived as a result of the ability of people to cross borders for work. Are they an under-rated or even forgotten aspect of free movement?
You’d think a group of workers that came to this country bringing along extra rights we can all enjoy would be welcomed with open arms wouldn’t you? Thanks to the free movement of labour rules in the EU we can all share in the right to a minimum paid annual leave entitlement; more rights for agency workers and temps; maternity leave rights and parental leave; equal pay and anti-discrimination rights
Front-and-centre of debate
The fact of EU workers coming to the UK in increasingly larger numbers is front-and-centre of political debate right now and the outcome could have fundamental implications for the free movement we all enjoy.