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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Persons over the age of 65 are entitled to full statutory redundancy provided they have Two years service Class A (or class J contributions if over the age of 65) in the past four years and A genuine redundancy situation exists.

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The company to which the Deputy refers (EPACE) is a private company, limited by guarantee and established under the aegis of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Electrical Contracting Industry. Its main objective is to advise Electrical Contractors of their responsibilities under the Registered Employment Agreement (REA) for the Electrical Industry and it also carries out...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Claims for statutory redundancy and claims under the Insolvency payments Acts are dealt with separately. The receiver for the factory named by the Deputy submitted a claim for statutory redundancy on behalf of the person mentioned to my Department on 28 November 2008. The Department is awaiting clarification from the receiver on a number of issues raised and will not be in a position to make...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 181, 182 and 223 together. Payment of statutory redundancy is, in the first instance, a matter for the employer. An employer who makes a statutory redundancy payment to an employee is entitled to apply for a rebate of 60% of the total cost from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF). Employees are only paid statutory redundancy lump sums from the Social Insurance...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Section 5(6)(b) of the Payment of Wages Act 1991 provides that the failure of an employer to pay wages properly payable to an employee represents an illegal deduction from the wages of the employee. Employees who believe that illegal deductions have been made from their wages may present a complaint to the Rights Commissioner Service. The Rights Commissioner Service may be contacted at The...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: There are two courses of action open to an employee in the circumstances to which the Deputy refers, depending on whether the determination/ruling/recommendation was made by a Rights Commissioner or the Employment Appeals Tribunal. If the case was heard by a Rights Commissioner the employee may, within six weeks of the date on which the Rights Commissioner communicated the recommendation to...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 186, 187, 190 and 192 together. After prolonged and detailed discussions on revised proposals over several EU Presidencies, the Council of Ministers at the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, on 9 June 2008, reached political agreement, by qualified majority, on a Common Position on revised working time rules. Throughout the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. The purpose of CE is to help unemployed people to re-enter the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199 and 200 together. The Employment Permits Section informs me that a work permit has now issued in this case.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: If the foreign national is the holder of an employment permit, then in line with the Employment Permits Act 2006 all employment permits are employer and location specific. Accordingly, if an employment permit holder wishes to change employer then a new application will have to be made. However, under the Act a new application for an employment permit cannot be considered, except in...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. The purpose of CE is to help unemployed people to re-enter the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Payment of statutory redundancy is, in the first instance, a matter for the employer. An employer who makes a statutory redundancy payment to an employee is entitled to apply for a rebate of 60% of the total cost from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF). There is no record in my Department of any application for a rebate on behalf of the former employer of the person mentioned.

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I have answered questions on numerous occasions and on Adjournment debates in this House from many Deputies, particularly Deputy O'Donnell opposite. He has a very strong concern about the impact of the job losses in Dell on Limerick and the mid-west region and the further spiral of job losses this will create. We all accept that. We are all practising politicians in this House and we on...

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: It is important to put it on the record. Dell, an international company, is still a good employer in Limerick and Cherrywood in Dublin. We want to acknowledge that.

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: On 8 January last, Dell announced its intention to reduce its workforce by 1,900 at its plant in Raheen, Limerick. As I said, I am keenly aware of the impact that will have on the employees and the broader mid-west region. We had established a group of the relevant State agencies to prepare for a major job loss situation to specifically deal with the needs of any workers to be made...

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: It also offered individual one-to-one guidance interviews to include: identification of current qualifications and job requirements; provision of information on job opportunities, mid-west, national and EU; identification of upskilling training requirements; provision of a broad range of training programmes in response; referral to educational providers where appropriate; and referral to...

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: To be helpful to the Deputy, may I go on? This is a very sensitive issue and I am trying to give the Deputy as much information as possible. We do not need any lectures about job losses. We are fully aware of the concerns of the Deputies opposite and on this side of the House——

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Enterprise lreland is specifically targeting potential business start-ups through the following supports and programmes: a dedicated opportunities fair to be held in March in Limerick to encompass all enterprise, employment and education institutions, together with private and voluntary sector organisations, including financial institutions, MABS, Citizens Information and recruitment...

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise.

Employment Action Plan. (27 Jan 2009)

Billy Kelleher: In addition, Enterprise lreland is addressing the challenges facing the sub-supply base in the mid-west with a dedicated sub-supplier event in April to facilitate supply companies to explore new opportunities, new business leads and new markets with assistance from Enterprise lreland's overseas market network.