Staff at The Times Ireland edition will not be entitled to redundancy pay unless they have worked for the company for more than two years. It is thought that most staff who have been given packages have seen them limited to statutory redundancy, which is two weeks’ pay for every year of service and one further week’s pay. “The company is offering the minimum statutory redundancy. Statutory redundancyRichard Grogan, founder of employment law specialists Richard Grogan and Associates, said that someone must have worked for 104 weeks to be eligible for statutory redundancy. “In larger organisations it’s quite usual that the Labour Court will recommend figures in excess of statutory redundancy, and deal with situations where people have less than two years’ service,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2019 16:46 UTC