Redundancy payments and RP50′s – An all too familiar issue these days. Apart from ensuring that employees are awarded their correct stautory redundancy payment (use online calculator http://www.redcalc.entemp.ie), under the Redundancy Payments Legislation, employers need to ensure that they issue at least two weeks notice of redundancy if they are making a redundancy payment. However, [...]
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Temporary Lay Off & Short Time Working
Posted by HR Solutions on February 11th, 2009
As redundancy figures continue to increase dramatically day by day,temporary lay off and short time working may offer employers an alternative to redundancy and an option to reduce costs until such time as business conditions improve. Both situations involve implementing a reduced working pattern, which is believed not to be permanent. Lay Off involves a [...]
Redundancy Best Practice
Posted by HR Solutions on August 28th, 2008
As redundancy figures for 2008 continue to rise with over 20,000 redundancies recorded for the first 7 months of the year, I would like to highlight some of the important issues to consider when making staff redundant, in order to avoid an unfair dismissal claim. Firstly, roles are made redundant and not individuals. The reasons for redundancy [...]
