Written answers

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Department of Social Protection

Redundancy Payments

Photo of James BannonJames Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify a situation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford in respect of employment law and entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27553/14]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Section 12 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides that where an employee has been in a lay-off situation or on short-time for 4 consecutive weeks or more, or for six weeks in the last 13 weeks, he/she may give his/her employer notice, in writing, of his/her intention to claim a statutory redundancy payment. Short-time arises where there is a reduction in the weekly earnings to less than half the normal weekly earnings or a reduction in the hours worked to less than half the normal weekly working hours. Where a full-time working employee, i.e., an employee working 40 hours per week, is put on a three or four day week by his/her employer such an employee is considered to be on reduced working hours. There is no provision under the aforementioned Act for an employee on reduced hours to give notice to his/her employer of his/her intention to claim a statutory redundancy payment. From the information provided by the Deputy it would appear that the person concerned may be an employee on reduced working hours.

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