Resigning

esperanza

In ireland, if you resign are you entitled to unemployment benefit?

whiskeyman

you mean go on the dole after you resign?
Of course.
You dont just resign because you feel like it.... well, you shouldnt unless the situation can be resolved.
You may need unemployment benefit to keep you going while looking for a new job.
Good luck if you're in this situation.

grumpytrousers

whiskeyman wrote:

you mean go on the dole after you resign?
Of course.
You dont just resign because you feel like it.... well, you shouldnt unless the situation can be resolved.
You may need unemployment benefit to keep you going while looking for a new job.
Good luck if you're in this situation.

Well, there's two things - there's unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance. One is means tested. I seem to recall spending a few weeks on the ol' rock'n'roll and when applying, they wanted t know why I'd jacked in my old job. I have a notion that you may get more out of the system if you have the bad luck to be made redundant as opposed to deciding that 'I've had enough of this'

Am more than happy to be corrected on this; it's a long-ish time ago!

seamus

According to oasis.gov.ie, you may be disqualified from UA and/or UB if you

left work voluntarily and without a reasonable cause

I'd guess there's then an expiry period after which you can sign on if you'd had no luck finding a new job.

You can't just quit because you fancy being a freeloader!

esperanza

seamus wrote:

According to oasis.gov.ie, you may be disqualified from UA and/or UB if you


I'd guess there's then an expiry period after which you can sign on if you'd had no luck finding a new job.

You can't just quit because you fancy being a freeloader!

I think you're right. It does seem a little unfair though since you have been making social security payments each month and then don't have the opportunity to claim anything back. Perhaps, it is possible to get your employer to fire you "on paper" and then you would have the right to claim something. Has anyone ever done this?

There are a lot of people out there who can get unemployment assistance just on the basis of being good buddies with the community welfare office. Was in this position myself. My situation was a little different though, I had finished a contract and was technically unemployed, but the bureacracy was quite challenging.

grumpytrousers

esperanza wrote:

I think you're right. It does seem a little unfair though since you have been making social security payments each month and then don't have the opportunity to claim anything back. Perhaps, it is possible to get your employer to fire you "on paper" and then you would have the right to claim something. Has anyone ever done this?

There are a lot of people out there who can get unemployment assistance just on the basis of being good buddies with the community welfare office. Was in this position myself. My situation was a little different though, I had finished a contract and was technically unemployed, but the bureacracy was quite challenging.

Well no - y'see the idea of paying social security stamps is that you get something back when you really need (or when the government deems you really need) it.

The viewpoint taken, I suppose, is that if you've decided that unilaterally that you've had enough of a particular job and are willing to forego the personal benefits of that, then the government can't really 'encourage' you to do this by allowing you to break into your Social Welfare Stamps/PRSI piggy bank....that's for when you REALLY need it - old age contributory pension etc...

I think it might be best described as 'harsh but fair'...

your second point re being good buddies etc is well founded; i know when i jacked in my job (in the UK) and came home, the woman behind the desk (who i knew anyway) was most understanding; I mean, she knew that I wasn't intent on being long-term unemployed and what my reasons were for coming home...so, I suppose, she squeezed a few forms thru the barriers on the grounds that this was gonna be for 6 weeks tops...thankfully it ended up being 2...

AARRRGH

esperanza wrote:

In ireland, if you resign are you entitled to unemployment benefit?

If you resign you have to wait 8 weeks after claiming for the dole before you are eligible.

(last time I checked, at least)