The European Commission declined to comment on Friday 15 January on an article in the Financial Times indicating that the UK government is preparing to abolish worker protections under EU laws, including the Working Time Directive limiting weekly working hours to an average of no more than 48 hours; this is a directive into which the country had not opted to participate as an EU Member State under the waivers that had been granted to it.
According to the newspaper, the draft would also...