Brexit | 'Doing business' abroad and breaking the law

'Doing business' abroad and breaking the law

By Mike Fitzsimmons, Senior HR Consultant, Moorepay

You’re relaxing in a faraway bar on a sun-kissed beach, smart phone in one hand, pina colada in the other. Your beeping laptop means the battery is low, but you must finish this report.

You know you shouldn’t be working; you should be relaxing. But have you even considered that you may be breaking that country’s employment laws?

Britain left the EU at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. Freedom of movement – the cornerstone right to move, reside and work anywhere in Europe – ended the same day. But just what does this mean? Have you considered the differences between ‘visiting’, ‘doing business’ and ‘working’?

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