Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Where workers are dismissed by reason of redundancy, the Redundancy Payments Acts require, subject to certain conditions, that employers make statutory payments to these workers amounting to two weeks' pay for each year of service up to a ceiling of €600 per week, plus a bonus week. Any person who is laid off by his or her employer is entitled to unemployment benefit or assistance provided he or she satisfies the normal qualifying conditions for receipt of payment. In the case of unemployment assistance, these conditions include the requirement to be habitually resident in the State.

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