Employment Law in Northern Ireland: Your Rights and Obligations as an Employee
Discover your fundamental rights and obligations as an employee in Northern Ireland under the prevailing employment law.
Employment Law
Understanding your legal rights through redundancy
The employment status of an employee can be terminated at any time, but unless the redundancy is fair, an Employment Tribunal may find the employer guilty of unfair dismissal. As a result, the business must consider the main principles involved concerning the redundancy of employees including the legal procedures to be followed and statutory redundancy …
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What Your Rights Are As An Agency Worker In NI
Agency workers can benefit from many employment rights, but they will have different working rights from full or part-time employees. As an agency worker, it’s important to know your rights and the rules so that businesses correctly treat you. What is an agency worker? An agency worker works through an agency which finds them jobs. As …
What are the legal implications of double jobbing?
In today’s working society, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an increase in zero-hour contracts and casual working arrangements. Secondary employment is now more favourable amongst many. However, double jobbing does have its implication. Can an employee have a second job? In legal terms, there is nothing to stop an employee from getting a …
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What are my rights as a part-time worker
All employees have basic employment rights regardless of whether they work full time or part time. Part-time workers must be treated equally when working for the same employer and doing similar work under the same type of employment contract as full-time employees. Part-time employees have legal rights from day one of employment. There is no minimum length …
What Are My Employee Rights?
Most of our week is spent in a place of work, and so every individual deserves to be treated fairly to have a positive and enriching environment that cultivates career development and productivity. What Rights Do Workers Have? Providing all other qualifying conditions are met, all workers have rights to the following: Wage Rights and …
Instances of discrimination at work
The word discrimination can be quite a common word used daily to describe unfair treatment for a particular reason. Everyone has the right to work in an environment that treats everyone equally, and with respect. What is discrimination within a workplace setting? Discrimination happens when you are treated less unfairly compared to others because of …
What to do if you are unfairly dismissed
In Northern Ireland, employees must have been continuously employed for one year or more to allow them to claim unfair dismissal. There are exclusions to this requirement, including dismissals for reasons connected to pregnancy or childbirth, health and safety activities, whistleblowing, or asserting a statutory right under the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. What …
What To Do If You Have Been Injured at Work
No matter what industry you work in, it is your employer’s responsibility to make sure that you can carry out your duties in a safe environment, but accidents can and do happen. All jobs can contain some sort of risk element from something as simple as a slip, trip or fall right through to being …
What are the legal requirements for buying a house?
Opening the door of your first home is one of life’s key milestones. However, the actual process of buying your property can be a daunting experience, with first-time buyers frequently finding themselves overwhelmed by the mass of information provided by the estate agent, lender, and solicitor. Therefore, McPartland & Sons, have put together a step-by-step …
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