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Boris Johnson is considering a post-Brexit overhaul of labour laws to free businesses from regulations originally imposed by the EU.
The 48-hour working week is one of the regulations being targeted by the Government, it was reported on Thursday night, in a move that is likely to meet with resistance from trade unions.
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Good, it royally screwed up people who willingly worked overtime for the extra money they needed on minimum wage. The 'target' was those employers who forced workers to work long hours, but (again) the 'catch all' approach hit everybody. It also led to a rise in the much despised zero contract area, with Agencies supplying short term workers where a company couldn't use their own workforce to cover some situations.
Many workers got round it by doing two jobs, 8 hours shiftwork in a factory followed by a further 6 or more hours taxi driving or fast food delivery etc. Completely legal, yet made a mockery of the 48 hour crap.