Motions

Conference welcomes the decision not to introduce the Trade Union Bill in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Executive Minister, Stephan Farry, in making this announcement correctly stated that this piece of legislation was "disproportionate to the problem...

Conference condemns the continued casualisation of labour with ever increasing use of short term, causal, zero hours contracts etc. creating insecure work and mass under employment. Conference notes that workers on these contracts are not afforded the same...

Reductions in the funding for Citizens Advice Bureau’s and other advisory services has left workers in non-unionised workplaces without adequate access to employment advice and support. Employers are able to breach employment law, behave despicably...

That this conference is concerned that Retired Workers still have no avenue by which to submit directly and speak in sup[port of motions to BDCs. The NIC is therefore instructed to bring forward whatever change of rules are necessary, to enable one motion to...

Conference is appalled at the level of violence against women and girls in all parts of our society, including at the workplace. Conference notes the survey undertaken by the Women’s Committee in 2014 on the impact of domestic violence on the workplace which...

Conference notes the case –Brewster v NILGOSC – and efforts to obtain cohabiting couples equal rights under pension legislation. Conference notes that cohabiting couples are required to complete a declaration to obtain pension rights should a partner die while...

Domestic abuse affects 1 in 4 women. PSNI respond to a domestic incident every 23 minutes. Many perpetrators are serial perpetrators going from woman to woman. Presently women do not have the right to know if their partner has a history of domestic violence...

Conference is concerned at the current crisis whereby over a million citizens of Syria and other Middle Eastern countries are displaced because of the political and humanitarian crisis in these countries. No-one can fail to have been moved by the pictures...

The mandate of the NI Assembly passed in march without the completion of legislation designed to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of age, a requirement under the 1998 Belfast Agreement, and the subject of equivalent legislation in England, Wales, Scotland...

Conference is concerned that the hollowing out of the labour market is leading to a growing gulf between low paid and often insecure employment and top level professional roles, with fewer opportunities for individuals to progress through mid-range specialist...