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TUC: Leaving EU puts hard-won paid days off at risk

BRITAIN’S EU referendum battle is being fought on the beaches today over claims that Brexit will “put family holidays at risk.”

The TUC has released research suggesting that one in four British workers benefited from extra paid holiday last year because of European Union laws. 

But labour movement figures in the Leave campaign said the TUC was trying to “frighten” people and were stuck in a “time warp” where Social Europe still existed. 

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