Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 71:

In page 31, to delete lines 24 to 28 and substitute the following: “ “12A.(1)(a) Section 12 shall not have effect during the emergency period in respect of an employee who has been laid off or kept on short-time due to the effects of measures required to be taken by his or her employer in order to comply with, or as a consequence of, Government policy to prevent, limit, minimise or slow the spread of infection of Covid-19.

(b) Where an employee’s period of service is interrupted for any period by reason of the employee having been laid off or kept on shorttime for the reasons referred to in paragraph (a), continuity of employment shall not be broken by such interruption.”.

The amendment seeks to make it clear that the employee's continuity of employment is not interrupted by a period of short time or temporary lay off of any duration. That is for the purpose of calculating entitlement to redundancy if that is the outcome for the employee at some later stage.

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