Member's statement: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
Member's statement by Mr Declan Kearney on .
- MLA
- Mr Declan Kearney
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 30 June 2026
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5652742
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Text
The 'good jobs' Bill is designed to benefit every single worker across this society, regardless of background. It is not anti-business. It is about growing economic productivity and enhancing employment and workers' rights. It is obvious that that transformative legislation is being blocked by the DUP while it continues to thwart the work of the power-sharing Executive and the Assembly. For its own political reasons, the DUP is willing to deny the challenges faced by vulnerable workers and those who are responsible for looking after members of their own families. The DUP's blockage of the 'good jobs' Bill is a dereliction of political responsibility. It ignores the potential for the Bill to benefit the lives of even its own voters. The rhetoric around proper scrutiny is a complete red herring; it is an attempt by the DUP to run down the clock in relation to the mandate. Why is that? What is the DUP afraid of? Why is it vetoing the 'good jobs' Bill? Is it that the DUP is anti-trade union or anti-workers' rights, or is it just because transformative legislation is being brought forward by a Sinn Féin Economy Minister? Those are the questions that the DUP has to answer. For our part, Sinn Féin will continue to progress the legislation. Workers' rights delayed are workers' rights denied.
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