Setting minimum wages is not an EU competence. Each (sovereign) member state decides whether to have one & how much it should be. This, it is misleading to have an EU column in the graphic ..
OK I’m taking this apart since no one else will.
1 The living wage
The living wage is not law. No one is obliged to pay it & only about 7,000 employers in the UK do so. Thus there is ‘no requirement’ in the UK just as there is none in the EU.
Contrast the minimum wage ..

Setting minimum wages is not an EU competence. Each (sovereign) member state decides whether to have one & how much it should be. This, it is misleading to have an EU column in the graphic ..
FWIW, France & Germany’s min. wage is about the same as ours. Ireland, The Netherlands & Luxembourg have significantly higher minimum wages. Source:
https://t.co/gNOhlJKsCI
This is proving easier than I thought. 1st, note that sick pay is not an EU competence. Each (sovereign) member state sets its own. So it’s misleading to compare the UK with the EU. 2nd, the graphic glides over the AMOUNT of sick pay &


The EU sets a minimum level of paid maternity leave at 14 weeks leaving it to (sovereign) member states to advance on that if they choose. This table shows how far each has done so. ..

• the last 13 weeks of UK maternity leave are unpaid, &
• the Daily Mail no less reports TODAY that ‘Maternity pay in the ..
https://t.co/A7QFyWkI5i
Only Greece & Luxembourg do worse.
4 Annual leave
I dealt with this earlier today, replying to a Tory MP who has been sent out armed with this bullshit to gaslight everyone. He’s not ..
In short, Tory lies & misinfo which should be challenged. In fact, where’s Labour’s response? This was clearly timed ..
https://t.co/geziaNkLhE https://t.co/T8C6UgtFRr
The Tory MP is either a liar or a moron or both. Others can pick the rest of this apart but I\u2019ll focus on the false claim about annual leave.
— Clive Wismayer \U0001f1ea\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f3\U0001f1f1 \U0001f96a (@CliveWismayer) January 26, 2021
\u2022 The Working Time Regulations implement the Working Time Directive. So this ignorant idiot is bragging about a European law.
\u2022 ERG .. https://t.co/34EaveQQvm
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