Advice regarding redundancy

Johngoose

Woman I'm close to has been off sick from work for 1 year and seven months, from a large multi-national company, who treat staff like crap basically and her health issues are because of the nature of the work she had been carrying out. Now the company are giving her six weeks to hand in her resignation or apply for a new job within the company. If she applies for a new job, she basically won't get it. The multinational has told her that they don't have too many positions which would not require manual work. They referred to an internal opportunity abroad, which requires German. She doesn't speak fluent German. She was smirked at by a district manager at a face to face meeting this week when she asked would her being out sick affect her applying for jobs within the company. I feel she is being royally "shafted" by the company. They didn't even ring her until recently, because they know that she is almost 2 years out of work. It just seems that all this must have legal implications for the company?Any advice would be greatly appreciated.(She is being offered nothing by way of redundancy.)

Ken.

Your friend needs to talk to a solicitor. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/leave_and_holidays/sick_leave.html

In some circumstances, where an employee has consistently been absent from work (or if through illness is no longer capable of continuing work), employment may be terminated. Employees are protected in certain circumstances in this instance through the unfair dismissals legislation.