Everything employers need to know about the potential impact of Brexit

Historically, the UK led the way in Europe in relation to key equality issues by implementing anti-race and sex discrimination laws and equal pay legislation in the seventies and then anti-disability discrimination in the mid-nineties.

However, the European Union (EU) has played a significant role in protecting and developing those legal rights and driving forward the pace of change on wider equality issues, says Suzanne Horne, Partner and Employment Lawyer at Paul Hastings LLP.