My Department provides a range of activation supports and programmes catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These supports include the Tús programme which is a work placement scheme that aims to provide short-term quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed while also assisting in providing certain services of benefit to communities.
If a Tús supervisor is made redundant by their employer and qualifies for a payment under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2007, the supervisor would be entitled to statutory redundancy at a rate of two weeks’ pay per year of service, plus a further week’s pay (subject to an earnings limit of €600.00 per week).
My Department is very conscious of the valuable contribution the Tús scheme is making in the provision of services to individuals and communities across Ireland and will be doing all it can to ensure that any adjustment in supervisor and participant numbers will be implemented in an orderly manner to minimise disruption to all stakeholders.