asked the Minister for Social Welfare why unemployment benefit is not paid to employees of a company who are dismissed as a result of strike action by other employees of the same company.
Written Answers. - Unemployment Benefit Payment.
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Claims for unemployment benefit are not invariably disallowed in the circumstances postulated by the Deputy. All claims for unemployment benefit from persons who have lost their employment by reason of a stoppage of work which was due to a trade dispute fall for consideration under the trade dispute provisions of the relevant social welfare legislation which are to be found in section 17 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952, as amended by section 8 (a) of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1967. In general these provisions disqualify such persons from receiving benefit for the duration of the stoppage of work but they do not apply to persons who are not participating in or financing or directly interested in the trade dispute and who do not belong to a grade or class of workers any of whom are so involved. Persons who satisfy these conditions are not disqualified for the receipt of benefit.