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Women’s rights take centre stage in EU referendum

LEAVING the EU would “turn the clocks back” on women’s rights, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady warns today. 

A new TUC report argues that European Union employment rights have empowered women to challenge unequal pay and inequality at work.

But Labour MP and Leave campaigner Kate Hoey insists that women will continue to be protected by British laws won by trade unions if voters choose to break with Brussels on June 23.

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