Industrial relations

Today the NI Assembly begins its summer recess, said ICTU Assistant General Secretary Gerry Murphy. Trade Unions are proud of the part we have played in ensuring workers have legal entitlements to holidays and time off to help recuperate from their working days. We do not begrudge the MLAs we elect...

While the NI Executive continues to block the Good Jobs Employment Bill, workers across England, Wales and Scotland will soon begin to enjoy many of many of the same provisions contained within that Bill. Speaking as the Labour government’s Employment Rights Act 2025 begins to take effect across GB...

Erskine House is a prominent office building in central Belfast branded as ‘HM Government’ which houses four floors of HMRC tax officials and above them, the Northern Ireland Office where the Secretary of State Hilary Benn and his Minister of State Matthew Patrick are based. Keeping the building...

Following the NI Executive meeting on Thursday 11 June which discussed yet again the Good Jobs Bill and yet again failed to approve its passing to the NI Assembly for debate, ICTU Assistant General Secretary Gerry Murphy said This decision not to allow the Good Jobs Bill to progress before MLAs take...

The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions notes with deep alarm and disappointment, the comments made by Gavin Robinson MP and Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly MLA today, regarding the Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill. Speaking today, the ICTU Assistant General...

Dear First Minister and Deputy First Minister Please circulate this correspondence to the ministers of the NI Executive The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions notes with deep concern that the Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill has not yet been submitted to the Northern...