SIR – Here’s a question for all the doom mongers and end-of-the-world brigade who among many forecasts/predictions have stated that workers’ rights will, following the Brexit vote, be severely diminished.
Can they therefore explain, to take up Max Hey’s point (Telegraph & Argus, February 17), why under European legislation workers’ rights have been shot to pieces?
To quote Mr Hey in the last five years the number of workers without guaranteed hours of basic employment rights has soared by a staggering 660,000.
This a jump of 27 per cent in so called insecure work and goes on to indicate that over three million people are now employed in insecure work.
So much for the vaunted EU employment legislation.
Eric Mills, Wrose Mount, Wrose
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