Social Policy

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 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...

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...

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...

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 is opposed to the ongoing attacks by the Westminster Government on a raft of anti-trade union legislation such as the Trade Union Bill and other employment laws. Conference welcomes that the NI Assembly have not sought to introduce these draconian...

This conference notes with concern the proposed changes in legislation affecting the Trade Union movement in the rest of the UK. While we appreciate that Minister Farry has stated he will not implement the Bill in Northern Ireland, we must not become...

Congress recognises the importance of due process in ensuring that trade union members are afforded rights to information and full disclosure, representation, appeal and presumption of innocence when going through workplace disciplinary processes or formal...

"Conference recognises that austerity’s affects are most severe on the most vulnerable, both individuals and communities. Conference notes with alarm that rural communities have suffered worst from cuts to services, which have had a severe impact on the...

Conference notes that the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) will be held by the end of 2017 and could be as early as June/July 2016. This will be an important decision for workers in Northern Ireland. A number of key workers' rights and...