Most employment-law rights are mandatory. Individual workers cannot decline the protections the law gives them. For example, a nonexempt worker must get at least $7.25 per hour and time-and-a-half for overtime, even if she would agree to less. A worker's pension must vest within five years. If...

This paper reviews how legal, political and economic threats to be borne out of Britain's decision to leave the European Union (EU) will short-change pre-Brexit work protection standards in the United Kingdom (UK). These threat-factors are considered in view of their effects on two classes of...