Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 8 December 2016, if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [47722/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Under the Redundancy Payments Act an eligible employee is entitled to compensation on being made redundant. In the first instance it is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy.

The purpose of the Redundancy Payments Scheme is to compensate employees for the loss of their job by reason of redundancy in cases where the employer can prove to the satisfaction of my Department that they are unable to make the payment.

To date, no claim form for redundancy has been received in my Department in respect of the person specified.  

Under the terms of the scheme, the redundancy claim form must be signed by both the employer and the employee before being submitted to my Department.

If the employer refuses to engage with an employee and sign their redundancy form, the employee must apply to the Workplace Relations Commission to have them adjudicate on their entitlement under the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended.

I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.