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In connection with third level training, personnel will be required to subscribe to an undertaking (or
undertakings), available on request, that, in the event of them leaving the Defence Forces voluntarily
at any time after they have commenced the course and before they have served in the Permanent
Defence Force for a minimum number of years reckoned from the date of completion of their third
level training, they will refund the cost of such training to the Minister for Defence including the
cost of pay and allowances paid to them during the period of attendance at the course.
hi, I am in the army and have been sent,like most young officers, to university to complete a degree course. The army policy on this scheme is officers must undertake to serve 3 years post graduation for every year spent in college(so 12 long hard years for me!). Thing is, I have never been asked to sign a contract and I have never had the terms of this contract explained to me. As you can imagine, I dont really wanna stay around in the army til Im forty! Do i have any legal basis for getting outta this "contract" before my 12 year stint is up?
,sounds to me your in the wrong job for you.
Could leaving before the 12 year term has expired be equated with desertion? Is that an offence in Ireland?
Did you have any choice in the matter? Did you request that you attend the degree course?hi, I am in the army and have been sent,like most young officers, to university to complete a degree course.
Minimum Notice & Terms Of Employment Acts, 1973-2001
Origin And Purpose Of The Act
Until the enactment of the Minimum Notice & Terms Of Employment Act, 1973, obligation to give notice to or entitlement to receive notice from employers was a matter for common law or settled through agreement between the parties.
The Acts lay down minimum periods of notice to be given by employers and workers when terminating a contract of employment.
Those sections of the Acts that related to information about terms of employment - Sections 9 and 10 - have been repealed and replaced by the Terms Of Employment (Information) Acts, 1994-2001.
Who Is Covered By The Acts?
The Acts apply in most employments to employees who have at least thirteen weeks continuous service with the same employer.
The Acts do not apply to:-
immediate family of the employer provided they reside with them and are employed in the same private house or farm;
established civil servants;
members of the Permanent Defence Forces (except temporary staff in the Army Nursing Service);
members of the Garda Síochána;
seamen signing on under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
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