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604 Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations, as of 2nd February 1997, revoke and replace the Industrial Relations (Continuity of Employment) Regulations of 1994 and relate to maintenance of continuity of employment where a dismissed employee is reinstated or re-engaged in certain circumstances.
Deductions
This section covers deduction from pay for employers and employees.
No 102 The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
These Regulations, as of 15/3/15, modify the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 in cases where a person has applied with another person for a parental order under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. Under that section a court may make an order providing for a child of a surrogate mother to be treated as the child of the applicants for the order if certain conditions are satisfied.
No 144 The Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
The Regulations, as of 6/4/15, amend Article 70(3) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 to comply with an EU Pilot investigation concerning the transposition of Council Directive 2000/78/EC in Northern Ireland.
320 Race Relations (Interest on Awards) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997
This Order makes provision in relation to interest on awards and compensation orders in the context of race relations and it addresses issues such as day to day accrual, calculation, rule departure, written details and so on.
No 42 The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
This Order increases, from 6th April 2020, the limits applying to certain awards of industrial tribunals, the Fair Employment Tribunal or Labour Relations Agency statutory arbitration. Examples of these rates include the maximum amount of “a week’s pay” for the purpose of calculating a redundancy payment or various awards, including the basic or additional award of compensation for unfair dismissal is now £560. The limit on amount of guarantee payment payable to an employee in respect of any day is now £30.00. The other rates can be found in the Schedule to the Order.
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.
Annual holidays
Most workers - whether part-time or full-time - are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid annual leave. Employers can set the times of the year that leave needs to be taken and workers must give the employer notice when they want to take leave.
No. 68 The Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation for Loss of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
These Regulations come into operation on 1/4/15 and the purpose of the Regulations is to provide new councils with the mechanism in which to compensate those persons who suffer loss of employment due to local government reorganisation.