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Advice on Managing Poor Performance
This booklet is designed to provide employers with guidance on identifying the causes of and dealing with instances of poor work performance.
Early Conciliation
The Labour Relations Agency provides an Early Conciliation service following a change in NI employment law which took effect on 27 January 2020. This service helps to resolve workplace disputes in a legally binding way, without the need to take a case to the Industrial or Fair Employment Tribunal. Click below for more information or to make an Early Conciliation notification.
Advice on Handling Redundancy
The aim of this guide below is to provide guidance for employers, trade unions and employee representatives on the best way to handle redundancies.
Freedom of Information Policy
This policy explains our approach when dealing with Freedom of Information requests.
Agency worker
An agency worker is someone who is supplied by an employment business/agency to work for the hirer under a contract of employment or other such contract as agreed between the employment business/agency and the hirer.
Advice on Conducting Employment Investigations
This guide is designed primarily for medium-sized organisations in Northern Ireland but the core principles apply as much to small and micro-employers as well as multi-nationals.
Advice on Recruitment, Selection and Induction
This booklet is designed to provide employers with guidance in carrying out recruitment, selection and induction activities.
Leaflet 2. Plan Your Employment Needs
February 2016
By keeping up-to-date employee information on personnel records, businesses can make sure that unexpected changes to their employment needs are kept to a minimum.
Advice on Social Media and the Employment Relationship
It's hard to think of a bigger change in the workplace over the last 10 years than the arrival of social media as a means of communication. Their rapid rise in prevalence and importance is changing the nature of work and how it balances with our private lives.
Types of employment status
There are different types of employment status, including agency workers, apprentices, piece workers, posted workers and young workers. Further information on each is provided below.