Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I will zone in on that. The wording in amendment No. 7 states: "...where an employee ceases to be the employee of an employer and, not more than 26 weeks after the date of cesser, the employee again becomes the employee of the employer, the period of service of that employee with that employer before the date of cesser shall be deemed to be continuous with the period of service of that employee with that employer after again becoming such employee". The Minister is stating definitively that this does not just cover the period of service immediately prior to the current term, but any previous service would be counted towards the 13 weeks. Is that correct?

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