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Blog: Employment and status of EU citizens in post-Brexit period

15/02/2019

Blog article about the employment, EU citizens and Brexit.

The Equality Commission’s advice is that employers continue to follow their normal equal opportunity policies in a fair, consistent and non-discriminatory manner. For those individuals who have applied and obtained settled or pre-settled status, then their current equality law rights and employers’ obligations to them would be the same as to all other workers.

Paul Oakes, Manager of the Equality Commission's Advisory Services Team, looks at this issue further.