Resources

Recent research has estimated the cost of workplace conflict for employers in Northern Ireland to be £851 million per year.

For the fifth podcast in our series on "Challenging Workplaces", we are joined by one of the authors of the research, Professor Richard Saundry from Westminster University, along with Nicola Barber, Chair of CIPD Northern Ireland, and our own Director of Employment Services, Mark McAllister, to discuss the topic and how managerial capability could help reduce these costs.

This webinar looks at staff retention, the essential elements that make up a retention strategy and the tangible benefits to an organisation of retaining good staff.

This Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy provides a road map as to how LRA will drive systemic change and build a diverse, inclusive environment in which our personal differences are cherished and where everyone can thrive.

A short, practical guide developed in partnership with Recentre to support you in handling safe conversations about domestic abuse at work.

In the fourth podcast in the "Challenging Workplaces" series, we discuss the four day week, and whether it might be time to reassess the traditional Monday to Friday working pattern in the modern workplace.

Our 'Respectful Conversations' podcast has been produced in partnership with Diversity Mark to support employers who want to encourage respectful conversations at work.

This is the third podcast in our Challenging Workplaces series. 

This is the second podcast in our Challenging Workplaces series.  Our Employment Relations Manager, Helen Smyth, and Clare Moore of NIC ICTU join host Glenn Baker to talk about Domestic Violence and Abuse, the importance of seeing it as a workplace issue, and how employers can best support any employees who are experiencing it.

This webinar covers information pertaining to discipline and grievance with a focus on policy, guidelines, practices, standards, rules, regulations and compliance.

This webinar provides an overview on how to manage sickness absence in the workplace.  It covers the types and causes of sickness, ways of measuring sickness absence, including policy and procedure considerations.  It will provide you with best practice skills and techniques to effectively and efficiently manage sickness absence in the workplace.

This joint guide provides advice and recommendations for employers and trade unions in terms of providing support for employees who may be experiencing domestic violence or abuse.

This webinar provides an overview to employers considering introducing hybrid working in their organisation.  It complements the Labour Relations Agency ‘Practical Guide to Hybrid Working’, available to view or download free from our website.

In this first episode of the Labour Relations Agency's podcast, entitled 'Challenging Workplaces', Mark McAllister, Director of Employment Relations Services and Keelin Kelly, Communications Manager, discuss societal issues that are now also being recognised as workplace issues - such as domestic violence, menopause and gender identity.