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No 100 The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Application of Articles 107A, 107B, 107G, 107I, 112A and 112B to Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
These Regulations come into operation on 15/3/15 and they apply to and modify existing powers in the 1996 Employment Rights (NI) Order to allow the making of regulations to give an employee who meets the eligibility criteria entitlement to statutory adoption leave, paternity leave and shared parental leave if that employee has a child born with the help of a surrogate and the employee is a parental order parent.
Real Living Wage podcast
In October 2024 the Living Wage Foundation announced an increase in the Real Living Wage to £12.60 per hour, a voluntary wage rate that is calculated based on the cost of living and is intended to provide a decent standard of living for employees.
In this podcast we are joined by Mary McManus, Regional Manager for Living Wage NI, based in Advice NI (a partnership between Advice NI and the Living Wage Foundation and funded by the Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland) and Elaine Clarke, Director of Employment Relations Services at the Labour Relations Agency, to talk more about what the Real Wage standard is, where it came from and the challenges and benefits for employers of signing up.
No 146 The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015
This Order makes consequential amendments arising from Part 2 of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015. Part 2 makes provision for new entitlements to shared parental leave and statutory shared parental pay and abolishes additional paternity leave and additional statutory paternity pay.
Minimum Wage
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 created a minimum wage across the UK.
The hourly rate for the minimum wage depends on your age and whether you’re an apprentice and it changes every 1 April.
Leaflet 3. Recruiting People
February 2016
Hiring employees, if done badly, can be costly.
Contractor versus Employee versus Worker
Employees, workers and contractors have different rights and responsibilities.
2016-Present
Index of employment-related statute (Acts and Orders) 2016-Present