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Employing and supporting LGBTQIA+ workers
How employers can develop an inclusive workplace environment and support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA+) staff.
Advantages of employing and retaining older workers
Key benefits that employing and retaining older workers can bring to businesses.
Employment rights of older workers
How employers can meet the legal rights of older workers including retirement age, age discrimination, and caring for dependants including grandchildren and parents.
Go Succeed business events
Register for upcoming events offered by Go Succeed, the council support service for Northern Ireland businesses.
JobStart
Employer incentive scheme to help people aged 16–24 and 50-64 years old at risk of long-term unemployment enter the workplace.
Private rental properties | New requirements for smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms
If you let private property you should be aware of changes to the law that set the minimum standards for smoke, heat & carbon monoxide alarms.
Employing and supporting older workers
How employers can embrace the benefits of employing older workers and meet their legal obligations and challenges of an ageing workforce.
Five top tips to promote an age-diverse workforce
How employers can create a workplace that is inclusive to workers of all ages to give them a competitive advantage in recruitment and retention.
Ageing workforce: challenges for staff and employers
How employers can identify and address the challenges of an ageing workforce.
Unfair dismissal: employee eligibility
Employer consequences if you dismiss someone unfairly.
Retain and retrain older workers
How employers can make efforts to retain staff to secure key skills and experience and how retraining older workers may be beneficial.
Types of employee dismissal
The different types of staff dismissal and unfair dismissal claims.
Recruiting older workers
How employers can recruit fairly and avoid age discrimination when taking on new staff including older workers.
Unfair dismissal
Reasons that automatically constitute the unfair dismissal of an employee.
Fair dismissal
You must have a valid reason for dismissing an employee - understand the reasons that constitute a fair dismissal.
Whistleblowing: Right of complaint to an industrial tribunal
If an employee is dismissed for making a protected disclosure, they may bring a claim to an employment tribunal.
Whistleblowing: Exceptionally serious failures
How workers are protected when reporting an exceptionally serious failure in the workplace.
Whistleblowing: Qualifying disclosures
The types of disclosure that are eligible for protection from dismissal.
Dismissals relating to industrial action
How to ensure that you dismiss an employee fairly for reasons relating to industrial action.
Dismissals on capability grounds
How to dismiss an employee fairly when they are incapable of doing their job properly or commit some form of misconduct.