New employment laws in Westminster are normally mirrored in Northern Ireland, with ministers bringing them to the legislature as Statutory Rules that are passed by consent.
Chief Executive of the Labour Relations Agency, Don Leeson, explained that at present backlogs are increasing.
“There are 30 odd pieces of law that have been passed in Westminster that have not been passed here around employment law,” he said.
“As Northern Ireland tends to follow parity with the rest of Great Britain, all that legislation's backed up and got to come through, and Westminster's very active at doing more things.”
And, while employment law is generally perceived as being protecting workers, it has implications for businesses and investment.
“It means for employers operating across the UK they are operating different employment legislation, which is not ideal.
“For example Westminster is just bringing in carers leave. If you have caring responsibilities and then you can get leave or you have rights to apply for leave.
“Whereas here that's not yet in. And obviously won't be in for several years now.”
Mr Leeson explained that while there are several pieces of employment law the thinking is now that when Stormont returns there will be an effort to wrap a lot of new employment law into one big bill, however, it will...
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