Redundancy question

beetlebailey

Just a quick one if any one could help.

The dept I’m working in is shutting down and work is being relocated abroad. So 8 staff Who have different lengths of service with company are being made redundant. 7 staff are being offered 4 Weeks for each year with a cap of Max 52 weeks. 1 staff is being offered 6 weeks for each year as they will only be with company 2 years when it closes.

So Loyal staff who have anywhere between 8 and 20 years are only getting 4 weeks per year capped at 52 weeks.While newer staff are getting 6 weeks per year.

is the legal? Company is large multinational and hugely profitable so money is not an issue for them.

thanks

hurleronditch

First of all sorry to hear you are losing your job. Not easy in any situation.

On your question, you are all getting more that the statutory requirement so I doubt there’s any legal issue.

4 weeks is not off market at the moment. I see where you are coming from that the newer starter is getting a “better” deal, but the reality is that management are probably trying to be sound so that the newbie doesn’t get peanuts. If it was phrased as “everyone is getting 4 weeks per year, with everyone being paid a minimum of 12 weeks and maximum of 52, how would you feel about that?

beachhead

There is no legal requirement on any company to pay redundancy money above the statutory amount applicable to the length of service to anyone.The Act covering the amount paid does not differentiate between long and short service,so the company is being "helpful" towards people with short service.

HalfAndHalf

So you begrudge 1 person getting 12 weeks redundancy pay. Sounds like the company are being very good about things and you’re not.

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058204867/redundancy-question

Nothing wrong at all.

chin up and move on.

Mrs OBumble

Person getting 32 weeks is annoyed that short serving colleague is getting 12 week instead of 8 weeks.

FFS.

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778304#Comment_117778304

not much wonder tht its been shud down and outsourced...

The Mighty Quinn

Are you somehow hoping OP that you'll be bumped up to 6 weeks pay per year of service?

Feck sake.

mm_surf

The company can easily get around your “concerns” by giving everyone the same, in the format of “four weeks per year with a minimum of 12 weeks and max of 52 weeks per person”

m.

TXPTGR1

What a miserable ****. Jesus Christ

Bass Reeves

OP it is quite common in VL deals to set minimum payments. A company can structure it any way it feels is right. All they are doing here is paying a little extra to staff that have little effort.as someone stated they could set s minimum payment of 12 weeks