<p>Membership of the European Union</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:23 pm on 21 June 2016.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 2:23, 21 June 2016

First Minister, in 1975, we joined the EU. In 1977, the EU issued a directive to protect workers transferring from one undertaking to another, which, in 1981, became the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, which have given protection to hundreds of thousands of Welsh workers over those several decades. In fact, when it turned out a Tory Government didn’t properly implement that directive, Unison, the public sector union, was able to go to the European Court of Justice and actually get an order to give that proper protection to those hundreds of thousands of workers. When it comes to protecting workers’ rights, who would you trust most: the European Union, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson? [Laughter.]