Employment Law

Redundancy

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The Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2014 impose a statutory obligation on employers to pay compensation to employees dismissed for reasons of redundancy or laid off or kept on short-time for a minimum period 6.

Redundancy arises where the employer has ceased to carry out business, an employee’s job ceases to exist, work of a particular nature has ceased, a permanent reduction in the numbers employed has or is due to occur, reorganization, etc..

The minimum period is 4 or more consecutive weeks or for a period of 6 or more weeks which are not consecutive but which fall within a period of 13 consecutive weeks.

The Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 – 2014 provide as follows:

That an employee with 104 weeks’ continuous service, aged from 16, and whose employment is terminated because of redundancy is entitled to a redundancy lump-sum payment. Part-Time workers are included in this by virtue of the Protection of Employment (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 and the Redundancy Payments Act 2003.

The Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2014 provide a right of complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) where an employee believes that he/she has not received his/her entitlements under those Acts.

The statutory redundancy lump-sum entitlement is calculated as follows:

2 weeks pay for every year of service, subject to the statutory ceiling.

When that figure has been calculated, a bonus week’s gross pay, subject to the prevailing statutory ceiling, is added on to get the final statutory redundancy lump sum figure.

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To calculate your redundancy entitlements, please visit www.welfare.ie and access the Redundancy Calculator

If you require a consultation with our Employment Law Solicitor to discuss redundancy further, please call 01 8211288

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