asked the Minister for Labour the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford did not receive redundancy payment at the level which was certified by her former employer; and if arrangements will be made to pay her the full amount.
Written Answers. - Redundancy Payment.
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The statutory redundancy lump sum paid to the employee concerned was the equivalent of nine and a half week's gross wages, which amounted to £812.06. The amount of that lump sum was calculated by my Department in accordance with the provisions of the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1984, based on the information supplied to the Department in respect of the employee's age, service with the firm and normal weekly pay.
The amount of lump sum claimed by the employee as calculated by the receiver of the company in which she had been employed was the equivalent of 10 weeks' pay but that calculation was incorrect. The receiver may in his calculation of the employee's reckonable service have omitted to take account of two periods of lay-off from 17 December 1984 to 4 January 1985 and from 25 February 1985 to 26 July 1985. Such periods are non-reckonable for the purposes of calculating a statutory redundancy lump sum.