Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage

1:45 pm

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It depends. I am not an expert in the field. We do not set statutory obligations in respect of redundancy, except for the statutory two weeks plus provision. That is statutory redundancy. I gather that what the Deputy is referring to are companies that have structures such that when they close they do not pay money in addition to statutory redundancy. I do not believe we have provision in law to oblige people to adjudicate on what ought to be the non-statutory redundancy. There has never been any such provision. I believe the Deputy is trying to introduce, by way of personal liability on an individual director, something we do not provide for in law anyhow.

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