Theresa May’s Great Repeal Bill will leave workers’ rights hanging by a thread – MPs could do nothing.

By Melanie Onn.

Theresa May announced last month that the government will look to pass a Great Repeal Bill, which will replace the European Communities Act [ECA] once Britain has left the EU.

That is necessary – the Act needs to be repealed for us to leave the EU, but because numerous laws have been passed through the ECA, to repeal it without replacement would cause those laws to fall away.