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Conference Proceedings The Changing World of Work - Key Issues for Northern Ireland 19 April 2005 Contents Opening Addresses 1 Luncheon Addresses 18 Closing Remarks 23 Public Sector Pay and Pensions 25 Employment Relations and the Psychological Contract 27 Employment Relations for Migrant Workers in NI 29 Family Friendly Policies and Employment Relations 37 Tribunal Processes and the Role of the LRA 47 The Future of Mediation and Arbitration in NI 54 Employment Relations - The Necessary Skills 59 Employment Relations in Small Firms 63 Appendix 1 - Biographical Details of Speakers 65 Opening Addresses The Changing World of Work - Key Issues for Northern Ireland Pat McCartan (Chairman, LRA) Distinguished Guests and Colleagues - You are all very welcome to the Labour Relations Agency’s Conference 2005. Let me extend our warmest of welcomes to our guests from Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and from the Department for Employment and Learning, our sponsoring department. Also, we have received best wishes from our sister organisations around the world for a successful conference, as well as from the European Commissioner, Vladimir Spidla, and the social partner organisations at EU level. We are delighted to welcome our sister organisations the Labour Relations Commission, and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, and we look forward to hearing from them in our deliberations. We extend the very warmest of welcomes to our social partner organisations, the CBI and the ICTU, and are delighted to have John Cridland, Deputy Director General, and David Begg, General Secretary, as our keynote speakers. We welcome the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Federation of Small Businesses, the NI Committee of ICTU, and the Employment Relations Committee of CBI Northern Ireland. We welcome our partner agencies, the Chairman of Invest NI, the Vice-President of the Industrial and Fair Employment Tribun