As oil workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery agreed to return to work today, Bill Cash MP insisted that the problem was not yet over.
Bill Cash said: “The underlying legislation has not been dealt with and I expect the problem will spread to other areas. The Government blamed the entire situation on British workers, rather than attempting to deal with the offending European legislation.
“The answer to the current predicament is to fix our own domestic legislation. Given that the European Union would not take action, and has been at fault throughout, it is the role of Westminster to enact the necessary legislation. My Employment Rights Bill does just that.
“British workers should have equal rights to everyone else, they should have rights on par with those of foreign nationals and also rights which are presented them to by their own sovereign Parliament.
“I have now raised the question of fair treatment for British workers with a Government minister for Business and Enterprise in the Commons because this legislation must be put right. Britain ought to do what other European countries have already attempted to do: put in place domestic legislation to prevent terrifying situations such as this from coming about.
“As I already said in the House of Commons this week, given the strikes that we are facing in the United Kingdom, and given that European law is trapped by its own system into having the European Court of Justice make decisions that cannot be reversed, is it not vital to our own national interests to reassert the supremacy of our own Westminster Parliament and require the British judiciary to obey the latest relevant Act of Parliament? The Conservative party had agreed to that underlying proposition when it supported my amendment to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill two years ago.”
