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

That is what I am saying. If it is being used as a loophole, let us look at the circumstances. However, under existing law, such an employer has an obligation to meet the redundancy payments and meet its obligations to the workers under all headings. If it transfers the business to a new unit which is doing the same business, that would be a transfer of undertakings and it has to maintain the same conditions. It hinges on what has happened in the individual case.

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