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
- 3 November 2025
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5212825
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Text
In the coming weeks, Sinn Féin will be conducting a house-to-house canvas throughout the North to discuss the 'good jobs' employment rights Bill, which will be brought before the Assembly in 2026. The Bill aims to introduce unprecedented improvements in all workplaces. Workers and employers will benefit, so it will be progressive and consequential legislation. Sinn Féin's grassroots political engagement will provide information about the proposed legislation and how it will advance economic productivity and shared prosperity. As the all-island economy continues to grow, it is essential that everyone feels the benefits of prosperity, but that can only be achieved when workers are well paid and guaranteed secure employment. The proposals to expand trade union membership and strengthen collective bargaining rights are very important. The legislation will enhance the working environment for workers with parenting and caring responsibilities by guaranteeing rights to flexible working and parental leave. It contains family-friendly proposals, such as an introduction of additional leave and pay entitlements for working parents of babies in neonatal care, a statutory right to carer's leave, strengthened paternity leave rights and an extension of redundancy protections for pregnant women. The 'good jobs' employment rights Bill will improve workers' conditions. It will guarantee that they keep their tips, strengthen the right to disconnect from the workplace and end precarious working conditions by introducing banded-hours contracts. The proposals in the legislation are expansive and transformative. Sinn Féin's constituency-based canvas will be aimed at maximising awareness of those important measures in the coming weeks.
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