Work Quality in Northern Ireland Additional Indicators 2024
Date published:
The Work Quality in Northern Ireland results released at 9.30am today. This report contains analysis for six additional work quality indicators: accidents at work, underemployment, trade union membership, participation in training, overtime (paid and unpaid) and zero-hours contracts. This analysis compares the quality of work over five years for key cohorts; sex, age, deprivation quintile, and skill level.
Key points:
Of the six indicators, only one has seen a significant change between 2020 and 2024. This was the proportion of employees reporting that they have worked overtime (paid or unpaid); where there has been a decrease of 8 percentage points (pps) to 21% in 2024 (29% in 2020). Fewer employees doing overtime would be classed as a positive change.
Three have remained consistently positive throughout the time series with nearly all employees reporting that they had not had an accident at work and were not underemployed, and nearly 9 out of 10 employees not having a zero-hours contract.
Work Quality Additional Indicators report and tables are available on the Work Quality page.