Brendan Burgess
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I have never really understood why people get payments when they are made redundant.
It is a joke that the Clare plant is paying the highest wages in the World and to survive as a company they have to pay off the employees whose salaries are the main reason for the plant to close. Not only do they have to pay their share of the statutory redundancy, they are under pressure to pay extra. I think it has been acknowledged that they have been a great employer and a great contributor to the Irish economy over the years. We should be thanking them for their contribution not penalising them for ending it.
Someone has a well paid job for 25 years gets a year's salary tax free on leaving that job. Someone who has been unemployed for 25 years gets nothing.
The state can't afford it and so should stop paying statutory redundancy payments.
It is a joke that the Clare plant is paying the highest wages in the World and to survive as a company they have to pay off the employees whose salaries are the main reason for the plant to close. Not only do they have to pay their share of the statutory redundancy, they are under pressure to pay extra. I think it has been acknowledged that they have been a great employer and a great contributor to the Irish economy over the years. We should be thanking them for their contribution not penalising them for ending it.
Someone has a well paid job for 25 years gets a year's salary tax free on leaving that job. Someone who has been unemployed for 25 years gets nothing.
The state can't afford it and so should stop paying statutory redundancy payments.