Query about 3 day weeks.

Salome

Anyone know if going on a 3 day week for a long period (6 months +) affects your length of service? For example, will it affect the amount of redundancy pay due to you if made redundant after a prolonged period of 3 day weeks?

Greentree_uk

I'd like to know the answer to this question.


I too am on a 3 day week since july I believe job seekers/income supplement benefit is only payable for 9 months. what happens after this. I was a full time employee for 7 years. as far as the government is concerned after 9 months you are classified as part time and ceases any further payment. so, what happens with my employer am I now a part time worker and lose all my rights or do they now have to make someone redundant? as a part time employee they could sack me at anytime?

Rylan

+1 on looking for an answer to this. Possibility of going down to 3 day week and wondering will it affect my redundacy.

-Trek-

AFAIK redundancy is based on the income earned on the second year prior to be been made redundant, i.e. based on 2007 if made redundant in 2009.

Cant be certain though.

biblio

Have a look here, should help with your queries:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/References/case-studies/redundancy-payment-and-short-time-working

damian1250

If you are on a 3 day week for more than 12 weeks you can request your redunancy money from your employer (i dont think he can refuse) and go looking for work !

Greentree_uk

request redundancy? can anyone confirm this?

Greentree_uk

I did some digging and found this.


"Lay-off or Short-time (Form RP9)

This can arise where an employee has been laid off or kept on short-time or a mixture of both either for four consecutive weeks or for a broken series of six weeks where all six weeks occur within a
13 week period. The employee, if he then wishes to claim redundancy payment must serve a written notice (Form RP9 is available for this purpose) stating that he intends to claim because of lay-off or short-time, or give his employer notice in writing terminating his contract of employment (Form RP9 may be used for this purpose). The employee does not have to serve either of these notices as soon as he has been laid off or kept on short-time for either of the periods mentioned above. He can wait longer, if he chooses, but if the short-time or lay-off stops and if he does decide to claim, he must serve a notice not later than four weeks after the lay-off or short-time ceases. After that, he is debarred from claiming a payment in respect of that particular period of lay-off or short-time."

"(1) Treatment of Short-time Wages (i.e. working for less than half a week or earning less than half a week’s wages e.g. a 2 day week) for Redundancy calculation purposes. It has long been the view of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, even before the enactment of the Redundancy Payments Act, 2003, that when a person is put on short-time i.e. working less than half the number of hours they are normally expected to work in any week or earning less than half their normal weekly earnings, e.g. a 2 day week, the gross wage for the calculation of a redundancy lump sum is based on a full week’s pay."