Recommendation - extending workforce monitoring requirements
We recommend an extension of the monitoring requirements under the fair employment legislation to cover the additional grounds of nationality and ethnic origin. This will mean that registered employers, in addition to monitoring the community background and sex of their employees and applicants, will be required to collect monitoring information as regards nationality and ethnic origin.
The proposal paper
A proposal paper outlining in detail the rationale for this proposal, the ways in which the additional monitoring information will benefit employers and the likely impact the proposal will have on employers has already been submitted to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) for consideration. It is our view that urgent consideration needs to be given to this matter is supported by independent research (pdf, 2009) on the issues and challenges facing government, employers and other in Northern Ireland as a result of increasing inward migration.