REGISTER OF EMPLOYERS A Register of Concerns in which people are employed in accordance with Article 47 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Equality House 7-9 Shaftesbury Square Belfast BT2 7DP Tel: (02890) 500 600 Fax: (02890) 328 970 Textphone: (02890) 500 589 E-mail [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2003 ________________________________________________REGISTRATION The Register Under Article 47 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 the Commission has a duty to keep a Register of those concerns employing more than 10 people in Northern Ireland and to make the information contained in the Register available for inspection by members of the public. The Register is available for use by the public in the Commission’s office. Under the legislation, public authorities as specified by the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister are automatically treated as registered with the Commission. All other employers have a duty to register if they have more than 10 employees working 16 hours or more per week. Employers who meet the conditions for registration are given one month in which to apply for registration. This month begins from the end of the week in which the concern employed more than 10 employees in Northern Ireland. It is a criminal offence for such an employer not to apply for registration within this period. Persons who become employers in relation to a registered concern are also under a legal duty to apply to have their name and address entered on the Register within one month of becoming such an employer. Again failure to apply is an offence. When a concern applies for registration, it is entered on the Register. New concerns meeting the conditions for registration are entered each month. The 2003 Register of Employers contains details of over 3965 employers. Once registered there is no further requirement to renew the registration unless, at some stage, the concern has been de-registered and subsequently meets the registration criteria. All registered concerns and specified public authorities have further duties in relation to the monitoring of their workforces and applicants for employment, and review of their employment composition and practices. The Commission may remove concerns from the Register if they appear to have ceased to exist. Employers may also apply to be removed from the Register if, at least one year after their application, they can show that their concern had less than 11 employees continuously throughout the previous 26 weeks. It is an offence for an employer to knowingly make a false statement in relation to such an application for de-registration. _____________________________________________________PREFACE Access to the Register The Register can be downloaded from the Commission’s website: www.equalityni.org and a copy is kept in the Commission’s information service for consultation Interested individuals and groups can also purchase the Register. Copies can be obtained from the following address at a cost of £5.00 (plus postage) from: The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Equality House 7-9 Shaftesbury Square Belfast BT2 7DP Tel: (02890) 500 600 The register is constructed from the information provided by the concerns which have applied for registration. The entry for each concern contains: - name of concern - address of concern - date of entry in Register - nature of business This information relates to the concerns which are registered with the Commission as at 6 July 2003. Public authorities, as specified by the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000, are not required to apply for registration with the Commission. Instead they are deemed to be registered from their date of specification. (A list of specified bodies has been included in Appendix 1). ___________________________________ HOW TO USE THE REGISTER The Register is in alphabetical order by name of concern. In constructing the listing the following rules were used. 1. Personal names – where the name of the concern is a surname preceded by initials or forename, e.g. JH Lunn (Jewellers) Ltd, Francis Dinsmore Ltd, the concern is always listed by surname followed by initials or forename. i.e. Lunn JH (Jewellers) Ltd Dinsmore Francis Ltd 2. The – in the case of concerns with names beginning with The, e.g. The Ulster Independent Clinic. “The” is always placed at the end of the name. i.e. Ulster Independent Clinic, The 3. & - concerns with an initial followed by & go to the beginning of the listing for the initial letter, e.g. The first entry under B is B & E Electrics Ltd. 4. Prefixes Mac/Mc – concerns with these prefixes are treated strictly alphabetically. Names beginning Mac follow Ma. 5. Prefix O’ – concerns with the prefix O’, e.g. O’Neill, O’Kane can be found at the beginning of the listing for the letter O. 6. Numeric Names – concerns whose names begin with numbers, e.g. 3M Industrial Tapes Ltd appear at the end of the alphabetical listing. The list should be read across the page, by row. _________________________________________________________APPENDIX 1 Specified Public Authorities For the purpose of Articles 52 to 61 of the 1998 Order, Article 2 – a) specifies the Minister for the Department of Finance and Personnel as a public authority and provides that all Northern Ireland civil servants shall be treated as employees of that authority; b) specifies the Minister for the Civil Service as a public authority and provides that all United Kingdom civil servants shall be treated as employees of that authority; c) specifies the Secretary of State for Defence as a public authority and provides that all reservists shall be treated as employees of that authority; d) specifies the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a public authority and provides that all members of the police force shall be treated as employees of that authority. Public Authorities for the purposes of Articles 52 to 65 of the 1998 Order: Agriculture Research Institute of Northern Ireland Altnagelvin Hospitals Health and Social Services Trust Armagh and Dungannon Health and Social Services Trust Arts Council for Northern Ireland Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Belfast City Hospital Health and Social Services Trust Belfast Education and Library Board Belfast Harbour Commissioners Board of Governors of Stranmillis University College, Belfast, The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland British Broadcasting Corporation Causeway Health and Social Services Trust Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland Citybus Limited Coleraine Harbour Commissioners Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland Construction Industry Training Board Council for Catholic Maintained Schools Craigavon Area Hospital Group Health and Social Services Trust Craigavon and Banbridge Community Health and Social Services Trust Any District Council Down Lisburn Health and Social Services Trust Eastern Health and Social Services Board Enterprise Ulster Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Fire Authority for Northern Ireland Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland Flexibus Limited Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission Foyle Health and Social Services Trust General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland Governing Body of the Armagh College of Further Education, The Governing Body of the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Castlereagh College of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the East Antrim Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the East Down Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the East Tyrone College of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Fermanagh College of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Limavady College of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Lisburn Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Newry and Kilkeel Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the North Down and Ards Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the North East Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the North West Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Governing Body of the Omagh College of Further Education, The Governing Body of the Upper Bann Institute of Further and Higher Education, The Green Park Health and Social Services Trust Homefirst Community Health and Social Services Trust Invest Northern Ireland Juvenile Justice Board, The Labour Relations Agency Laganside Corporation Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland Local Government Staff Commission for Northern Ireland Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners Mater Infirmorum Hospital Health and Social Services Trust Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland Newry and Mourne Health and Social Services Trust North Eastern Education and Library Board North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust North/South Language Body, The Northern Health and Social Services Board Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Services Trust Northern Ireland Assembly Commission Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service Agency Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the Health and Social Services Northern Ireland