Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 13 May 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4947974
Read the official Assembly record
Text
I thank the Member for that question. Ensuring that we have an inclusive workforce is a direct outworking of what we are trying to do with the 'good jobs' Bill. There are a number of proposals in it that support that ambition, including the right to flexible working and the right to disconnect for a greater work-life balance. A key objective is a more inclusive economy and workforce, and we are working on other aims and objectives in addition to the work that we are doing on the 'good jobs' Bill. For example, through our skills and training programmes, we are ensuring that there are opportunities for people to take up and are trying to reduce the barriers. We are also implementing a work stream with employers to remove some of the unnecessary barriers that people face in trying to take up a work opportunity.
145 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.03 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.03 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.57 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 1.00 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.68 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.19 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.06 |
| Disability (including neurodivergence and mental health), disabled people and disability or sickness benefits | 0.06 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:35 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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