This article examines the influence of the EU over UK labour law, before and after Brexit. It compares the influence of the EU within the internal market with that under the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) agreed in December 2020. It focuses both on the different mechanisms through which labour law standards may be enforced before and after Brexit, and, in particular, on the extent to which the internal market case law of the Court of Justice (CJEU) may be utilised by labour lawyers seeking to apply the ‘level playing field’ provisions of the TCA. Given the structure of the EU Treaties and the TCA, arguments for high labour standards within the EU and in trade agreements signed by the EU, are more likely to be successful not where they are based on autonomous social arguments, but instead where labour and trade law arguments are combined.

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欧盟对英国劳动法的影响——脱欧前后

本文考察了英国脱欧前后欧盟对英国劳动法的影响。它将欧盟在内部市场的影响与 2020 年 12 月达成的英国-欧盟贸易与合作协议 (TCA) 的影响进行了比较。它同时关注英国脱欧前后劳动法标准实施的不同机制，特别是关于法院（CJEU）的内部市场判例法可以在多大程度上被寻求适用TCA“公平竞争环境”条款的劳工律师利用。鉴于欧盟条约和 TCA 的结构，欧盟内部和欧盟签署的贸易协定中关于高劳工标准的论点更有可能成功，而不是基于自主的社会论点，