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  • 13-09-2010 7:42am
    #1
    dan_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭


    Hi everyone...I've had a look at the social welfare site, and through the stickies and some other threads and I can't seem to get a definite yes or no on this.

    I've been offered a job for 10 months. Although I haven't negotiated the details yet, I think it will be classified as contract work. So I think (not positive) that I would basically be self-employed. That would be worse-case scenario from the point of view of the dole I suppose..

    So say I'm working on a contract basis for this company, for 10 months, and at the end of the 10 months I find myself unemployed again. Can anyone tell me whether or not I would be entitled to the dole at this point? I've been on the dole a grand total of 6 weeks so far and that's it. I had steady unbroken employment, with all stamps etc in order, from 2005 until July this year.

    Anyone got any thoughts?


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  • #2
    hello932
    Closed Accounts Posts: 325 ✭✭hello932


    If the contract is under 12 months does that mean that the employer can treat you wrongly in regard to employee rights?


  • #3
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    So you'll be signing back on next year after the self-employment? That means you'll be using the credits worked from 2009 so you should qualify for JB.


  • #4
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Your questions are largely hypothetical. When you have fully discussed the proposition with the "employer", then come back, as posters will have a definite basis on which to give good advice."What if" scenarios can lead down a myriad of tangents.


  • #5
    dan_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    Yes I would be signing back on next year after the 9 months (assuming I didn't find a job in the meantime, I will continue looking while doing the contract work). I think you're right from what I can see, Nolanger.

    I will come back when I've further information, but right now, it's quite simple. It's contract work with a financial institution for 9 months, something I've not done before. I understand how the social welfare system works for self-employed people, and people doing temporary jobs - as in, 3 days a week or something. It's just not very clear on how it works for a block of work like this.


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