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Redundancy Employment (Part-Time Work) Act

2001 and the Redundancy Payments
The Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2014 Act 2003.
impose a statutory obligation on employers
to pay compensation to employees dismissed (ii) That the statutory redundancy lump-
for reasons of redundancy or laid off or sum entitlement is calculated as
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kept on short-time for a minimum period . follows:
Redundancy arises where the employer has 4 2 weeks pay for every year of
ceased to carry out business, an employee’s service, subject to the statutory
job ceases to exist, work of a particular ceiling.
nature has ceased, a permanent reduction in
the numbers employed has or is due to occur, 4 When that figure has been
reorganisation, etc.. calculated, a bonus week’s gross
pay, subject to the prevailing
The Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 - 2014 statutory ceiling, is added on to
provide as follows: get the final statutory redundancy
lump sum figure.
(i) That an employee with 104 weeks’
continuous service, aged from 16, and
whose employment is terminated
because of redundancy is entitled to Redundancy Calculator
a redundancy lump-sum payment.
Part-Time workers are included in To calculate your redundancy entitlements,
this by virtue of the Protection of please visit www.welfare.ie and access the
Redundancy Calculator.

6 The minimum period is 4 or more consecutive weeks or for a period of 6 or more weeks which are not consecutive but
which fall within a period of 13 consecutive weeks.

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