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You seem to be missing a very significant and important point about UK laws, our legal and our political system.
It is hardly ever the case that you can simply decide to change a rule or a law and it doesn't effect or is effected by other rules and laws.
If there was a historic law about having to work a 40hr week and only a 40hr week, over time laws would be added and amended to accomodate or take into account the 40hr week regarding all sorts of aspects that effect working life.
Health and safety, pensions, breaks, holidays, sick pay, maternity leave etc would all be legislated to deal with that 40hr week.
If it was suddenly decided to change the law to 45hrs or 35hrs a week or scrap the law completely and leave it up to the employer and employee, then all the other laws on health and safety, sick pay, breaks etc etc etc would suddenly be out of step and possibly broken.
Ergo you can't just suddenly decide to change a law and not have put in place all the required changes and adaptions to laws that are connected or effected by that change.
Neither can you suddenly change for example the law on holidays to only be a maximum of 3 weeks per year if there is another law that states holidays are calculated on a number of hours worked fixed formula.... unless you change and adapt that law ... and any that are effected by that change ad infinitum. |
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