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EU Employment Directives
EU Employment-Related Directives for which the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has UK Responsibility
Subject | Required implementation date for UK (whether yet implemented — Yes, No or Partial) | Relevant UK legislation |
|---|---|---|
Safeguarding employees’ rights in transfers of undertakings & businesses (Acquired Rights Directive) | 1979 (Yes) | Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 |
Protection of employees in the event of their employer’s insolvency | 1983 (Yes) | |
1993 (Yes) | ||
1996 (Yes) | ||
Horizontal Amending Directive’ – Extending the Directive on organisation of working time to excluded sectors and activities (road, rail, air sea, inland waterway and lake transport, seafishing, offshore work and junior doctors) | 2003 and 2004** (Yes) | |
1996 and 2000 (Yes) | ||
Establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure for informing and consulting employees | See below | |
See below | ||
1999 (Yes) | ||
1999 (Yes) | Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999 | |
1999 (Yes) | Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999, last amended in 2006. | |
2000 (Yes) | Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 | |
(NB: This Directive consolidated two earlier directives) | 1994 (Yes) | Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 |
2002 (Yes) | Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 | |
2001 (Yes) | Summer Time Act 1972 | |
European Company Statute: Employee Involvement
| 2004 (Yes) | The European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004 |
Equal treatment in employment and occupation (Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, religion or belief, disability and age in employment and vocational training is prohibited by Directive 2000/78/EC (“Framework Directive”)). | 2003 and 2006 (Yes) (Implementation completed in 2006 having made use of additional time allowed under the Directive to implement the age strand of the Directive) | The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003; The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003; The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 |
| National information and consultation of employees | 2005 (Yes) | The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 |
| The burden of proof in cases of sex discrimination; and the meaning of indirect discrimination | 2001 (Yes) | Sex discrimination (Indirect Discrimination and Burden of Proof) Regulations 2001 |
| Amending the 1976 directive on equal treatment for men and women in employment and vocational training | 2005 (Yes) | CLG has responsibility for the implementing regulations |
| Cross Border Mergers | 2007 (No) |
* Other relevant British legislation already covered posted workers, eg: legislation on the employment of children, on health and safety, the Working Time Regulations 1998 and the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.
** 2004 for junior doctors
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