Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Agenda

Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on 24 February 2025.

MLA: Dr Caoimhe Archibald
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 24 February 2025
Type: Debate contribution (made as a minister)
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: 'Good Jobs' Agenda
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4813727

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I thank the Member for his supplementary question. Advice NI began its work, supported by my Department, as the new accreditation partner here for the Living Wage Foundation in June 2024. My Department provides funding of £125,000 per annum to Advice NI. Advice NI has confirmed that the number of accreditations for businesses as living wage employers continues to rise, with 51 new organisations becoming accredited since the start of the project and 19 doing so between October and December alone. Up to the end of December, the total number of living wage employer accreditations here stood at 127. The Living Wage Foundation's new accreditation partner for the North, Living Wage NI, was launched in June 2024. That was established by Advice NI and supported by the Department for the Economy. The Department holds quarterly progress meetings with Advice NI. At the last progress meeting, Advice NI confirmed that, as I have outlined, the number of accreditations continues to rise.

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