Industrial relations

Conference believes that the current General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland is not fit for purpose and should be dissolved. Conference is concerned that teachers are required to pay for registration from a body which is controlled directly by the...

Congress has huge concerns about the marked lack of progress on the part of the employers within the education system in addressing the issues pertaining to workers with disabilities. These individuals face daily challenges that are compounded by the absence...

Conference believes that the coronavirus crisis highlighted the need for the protection of workers income and health through the provision of adequate sick pay provision. In Northern Ireland Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) has been in existence since 1983. However...

Conference calls for Stormont to adopt an active industry policy for shipbuilding and aerospace sectors As part of Boeing’s acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems, Airbus will buy the formerly Shorts operations in Northern Ireland in its own supply chain; however...

The Fire & Rescue Service provides a life-saving resource to all communities across Northern Ireland. Like all other public sector bodies the Fire and Rescue Service has suffered throughout the last 14 years of Austerity The Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU)...

Conference acknowledges that there is currently no requirement for firms in Northern Ireland to publish their gender pay gap. Conference agrees that legislation introduced in the Republic of Ireland compelling companies of a certain size to publish their...

Congress is concerned that P&O Ferries have still not been punished for their unlawful assault on seafarer jobs, including on the Cairnryan-Larne route, where employment agencies now supply all the labour to P&O Ferries and where seafarers could still be...

Freelance workers are usually paid by a variety of different employers, all with their own different payment systems and schedules. This can lead to workers encountering serious cash-flow issues as payments are too often far from prompt. Trade Unions are...

Conference: i. notes that, while the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 prohibits charging upfront fees to work-seekers in most industries, the performing arts and entertainment industries are exempt from this ban: ii...

Conference notes the commitment from the new Westminster Government to introduce, in England and Wales, a specific offence of assaulting a retail worker. This follows on from the introduction of similar legislation in Scotland in August 2021. Although this is...