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Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022
- Sponsor
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Introduced
- 21 Jan 2022
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Employees laid off due to Covid-19 restrictions (March 2020–September 2021) who later become redundant receive a compensatory payment from the Social Insurance Fund equal to their lost redundancy entitlement.
- Employers must apply for the payment; if they refuse, employees can apply directly. Deciding officers assess eligibility and the Minister authorizes payment within 3 years of the emergency period ending.
- The payment equals the difference between the redundancy lump sum an employee would have received without lay-off and what they actually receive due to the lay-off period.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil21 Jan 2022
- Second Stage33rd Dáil21 Jan 2022
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil3 Feb 2022
- Report Stage33rd Dáil23 Feb 2022
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil2 Mar 2022
- Second Stage26th Seanad2 Mar 2022
- Committee Stage26th Seanad8 Mar 2022
- Report Stage26th Seanad22 Mar 2022
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad22 Mar 2022
- Enacted31 Mar 2022
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