Alan Kelly
Question:646. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are scenarios in which jobs clubs have not been closed down but the staff have received redundancy packages. [50186/18]
View answerTuesday, 4 December 2018
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Job Club employment services are delivered by a variety of community based organisations via a contract for service. Job Club staff are employees of these organisations and therefore redundancy payments would be a matter for them to address.
The Department would not ordinarily be involved unless a contractor / employer is unable to pay statutory redundancy to employees, in which case it is open to them to avail of my Department’s redundancy and insolvency payments’ scheme, details of which are available on my Department's welfare.ie.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.