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Old 1st Sep 2022, 14:38
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Originally Posted by SWBKCB
You've just picked out zero hours - for example, freedom of movement created the environment where zero hours could work, and led to wage containment in other ways
If that were so (it isn’t) why differing effects in France, Germany and others ( caveat Germany did retain some restrictions for a period post accession which GB could have also done) and why the likes of Belgium enforce the three month rule on internal migrants labour ?
There are plenty of tools within the EU freedom of movement rules to control unfettered movement (the so called movement for benefits conditions)
Wage restraints were a domestic industry and indirect government policy within the UK
And what’s more has not fundamentally changed
True Blue here say evidence is not evidence
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