okay this short video is just an introduction and an overview of the law
surrounding redundancy in Ireland and I'll also show you where to find an
online redundancy calculator so that you can calculate your entitlements or your
employees entitlements fortunately what is redundancy well there's a very very
wide definition of redundancy in the redundancy payments ax and the
definition basically covers five broad categories number one is for the
employer has ceased business secondly the requirements of the business have
changed in other words the employer has no longer has a need for employees to
carry out the particular type of work that is going to be made redundant
number three the employer decides to carry on business with fewer or no
employees for example there may be the introduction of for example a technology
or machinery to assist with the work number four is the work is to be done in
a different way and the employee who is currently in the position is no longer
qualified to do the job and finally the fifth category is that the employer
reorganizes his affairs in such a way that another employee in the
organization or outside the organization and can do the odd can do other work for
which you are not qualified in other words and there was a slight
reorganization in the employment and somebody else is essentially going to be
doing your job they'll also be doing another job and you are not qualified
for that other job there are two key factors in redundancy the impersonality
factor is the first one the job is done it's nothing got to do with the person
and the person strictly speaking in law is not made redundant to position is
made redundant so the impersonality factor is essential secondly there must
be change in the workplace the redundancy must arise from a change in
the workplace either less employees or a different way of doing the work or doing
business what the must be changed there are two key factors in a redundancy
genuine redundancy situation in order to qualify then for redundancy you must
have 100 for weeks of continuous employment and you must be just missed
and that is the situation in law in relation to redundancy and it's amazing
how often people may think that they have a redundancy entitlement when in
fact they may not for example have been dismissed they may have left the
position themselves as you're entitled entitlement to redundancy payments and
how their calculators generally you're entitled to two weeks pay for each year
of continuous employment and then on top of that you get an additional one weeks
normal pay and all earnings over 600 euros per week our disregard errs when
making this calculation there is a very handy redundancy payments calculator on
the website of the Department of Social Protection simply go to that website and
fill out the necessary information and s3 boxes and it will calculate your
redundancy payments entitlements for more information about employment law in
Ireland you can visit my website business and legal the high E I cover
quite a lot of information which is helpful to employers and employees
dealing with contracts of employment dismissal redundancy a fixed-term
contracts part-time contracts employers obligations and so on and so forth thank
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