Labour’s Suggest Tories are Quit EU for Scraping Workers’ Paid Holiday Laws

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Labour’s shadow Business Secretary, Angela Eagle, has equated British workers’ rights with its decision to leave the European Union suggesting that EU-backed principles like paid holidays and equal pay were “on the ballot paper” in the In-Out referendum on 23 June.

In her remarks, Ms Eagle pointed out that Conservatives supporting to leave the bloc wanted to scrap the workers’ rights and said Labour voters would be key to the Remain vote. During an interview with BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Eagle suggested that “workers’ rights are on the ballot paper in this referendum – a lot of workers’ rights are underpinned by EU regulations: equal pay for work of equal value, paid holidays, rights for part-time workers,” adding that “[these are] all things that Tory eurosceptics want to be free of.” She explained that “I think it’s important that we put the Labour case for staying in and underpinning rights at work, having a higher, more productive economy, greater skills in our economy so people can earn higher wages, a more productive economy, is really an important part of staying in Europe.”

According to the European Union legislation, it is mandatory for all member states to enforce laws that ensure workers are given four weeks of paid leave, whereas the principle of equal pay for equal work has been embedded in treaties since the bloc’s founding. According to Mr Cameron’s promise, Britain will hold an in-out EU referendum on 23 June after the renegotiation of the terms of British membership.