Employment

Article: LSP volunteers

The Law Centre will launch its new

Article: Frontline 82 now online

With a special focus on addressing poverty, the winter edition of our magazine is now online....

Event: Employment Law 2 Day Course - Derry - PLACES AVAILABLE

This course is aimed at advisers and trade union representatives whose job involves advising on employees’ rights including: pay and pay related issues; holidays; maximum working hours and breaks; unfair dismissal and...

Event: Employment Law - 2 Day course - Belfast- FULLY BOOKED

This course is aimed at advisers and trade union representatives whose job involves advising on employees’ rights including: pay and pay related issues; holidays; maximum working hours and breaks; unfair dismissal and...

Article: Migrant workers rights

Article: New proposals on tribunal reform

The Law Centre has published two new reports on tribunal reform: Structural Tribunal Reform in...

Article: Health and safety whistleblowing and unfair dismissal

The Law Centre recently negotiated compensation for a driver who had been dismissed for refusing to drive a lorry that he believed to be unsafe. As the vehicle's reversing lights, rear spotlight and warning siren were out...

Article: New National Minimum Wage rates

From 1 October 2011 the following National Minimum Wage rates apply: workers aged 21 and over: £6.80 aged 18 to 20: £4.98 aged 16 or 17 (...

Article: Encyclopedia of Rights 2011-12

The Encyclopedia of Rights 2011/12 is now available from our website (

Article: Frontline 80 online

Frontline 80 is now on line. This is a special issue on housing debt, with articles on helping people keep their homes, the human...

Article: £27,000 pregnancy discrimination award still unpaid after 13 months

Last year, the Industrial Tribunal awarded a Bangor woman compensation totalling £27,180.55 after finding that she had been subjected to pregnancy related harassment and discrimination and ultimately forced to resign.  Thirteen months later, ...

Article: Forced labour in Northern Ireland

The Law Centre has contributed to a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report,  Forced Labour in Northern...

Article: Casework selection at Law Centre (NI)

The Law Centre...

Article: Law Centre (NI) welcomes end of Worker Registration Scheme

Many migrant workers who have lost employment or whose family circumstances have changed have not been able to rely on a UK social security safety net in recent years. As a result, the Law Centre has dealt with a significant number of cases of...

Article: 2011-2012 Training Programme

Law Centre (NI) has published its new Training Programme. Download it here:

Article: Update your skills

March  and April courses at the Law Centre include Challenging Social...

Article: Help with debt and money advice

Beat the Recession was set up by Citizens Advice, Advice NI and the Law Centre to help people...

Article: Frontline 78: Recession special issue

Frontline 78 has a special feature: Who pays for the recession? Also articles on homelessness appeals and...

Article: Jobseeker’s Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity) Regulations 2011

Northern Ireland Context Northern Ireland presents particular circumstances with regards to welfare and arrangements to move people into employment. In Northern Ireland, the approach to social security, training and...

Article: 90 workers benefit from holiday pay case

The Law Centre tries to ensure that, where possible, its legal work has an impact beyond an individual client.Recently, we represented a woman in a case of failure to pay holiday pay. She had been working as a waitress in a local...