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settlement

  • 11-10-2011 10:59am
    #1
    Pason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    i have received a settlement for an injury at work but i am still not fit to go back to work can my employer now let me go if so can i do anything about it


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  • #2
    chopser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭chopser


    Pason wrote: »
    i have received a settlement for an injury at work but i am still not fit to go back to work can my employer now let me go if so can i do anything about it

    Why did you accept a settlement if you are stil injured and unable to work?


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,704 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Your employer isn't obliged to keep your job open forever if that's what you're asking, even if you can't go back to work because of a workplace injury.

    If you accepted a settlement then as far as he's concerned the case is closed and if you can't come back to work he's well within his rights to let you go based on disability.

    Having accepted a settlement it's unlikely that you'll have any comeback against him because his lawyer would have made you sign a document which said that you accepted the money in 'full and final settlement' of any claims you had against him arising out of the injury which would have included stress, pain and suffering and loss of earnings since the accident and into the future.


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