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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I can...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) endeavours to ensure that people, who are new to this country whether as employee or employer, are aware of the legislation relating to employment law. The Employment Permits service of my Department also gives information on employment rights to each employee who is issued with a work permit. Employers' attention is drawn to employee rights...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Appeals Officer in the Employment Permits Section of my Department is currently dealing with appeals received in the last week of January 2010. A decision will be made on this appeal in the next week.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: The Employment Permits Section of my Department processes applications in respect of the different types of employment permits (Green Cards Permits, Work Permits, Spousal/Dependant Permits and Intra-company Transfer Permits). All applications are processed in line with the Employment Permits Act 2006. Due to the prioritisation of business needs of my Department, it was necessary to re-deploy...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I can...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I can...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 113 to 115, inclusive, together. The impact on business of the severe economic circumstances currently pertaining has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the level of Redundancy Payment claims lodged with my Department. This has impacted significantly on the capacity to maintain the customer service targets that previously obtained. The scale of the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. The...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am very concerned about the issues raised by the Migrant Rights Centre and strongly condemn any practices by employers that may result in non-compliance with employment rights entitlements or any other mistreatment of employees, including those on employment permits. I have expressed these concerns directly with representatives of the Migrant Rights Centre when I met them in April 2010....

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Dara Calleary: May I share my time with the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey?

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can advise the Deputy that the numbers of redundancy claims lodged with my Department for County Mayo for the years 2007 to 2009 and to date in 2010 are as set out in Table 1. I should caution that these figures reflect the number of employees who actually qualified for statutory redundancy lump sum payments. They do not reflect those who lost their jobs with less than two years service...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (27 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can advise the Deputy that the Appeals Officer in the Employment Permits Section of my Department has been in contact with the employer requesting additional original documentation in relation to the case concerned. On receipt of this information a decision will be made on this appeal. Due to a necessary re-prioritisation of resources within the Department, a significant number of staff...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (27 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (26 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: NERA aims to achieve voluntary compliance and has a priority of having breaches identified, rectified, and any sums of money due paid to employees. Where an employer either refuses, or fails to rectify those breaches and/or pay money due to the employees, the case is referred for prosecution. The total for this prosecution type for 2009 was 87. NERA also initiates criminal prosecutions in the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. The...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to both the Redundancy and Insolvency Payments Schemes on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. I can confirm that my Department processed and paid claims under the Insolvency Payments Scheme in respect of Arrears of Wages, Holiday Pay and Minimum Notice for the person concerned and other former employees...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...