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In the terms set out for career breaks in the public service it says you can’t ‘take up alternative employment within the State’. Does this just mean simply that you can’t have a full-time job, or does it mean as well that you can’t work part-time?
Slightly Off Topic - but how come teachers can take career breaks and use that time to be highly paid TDs?? Or is this an exception to the clause?
In the Civil Service you can work while on a career break but your working hours must not compete with normal office hours. So if you work late evenings and weekends and pay tax then that would be fine. A word of caution, any department is only required to take you back after your career break has completed when they have a vacancy to fill. This would not have been a problem in years past but due to our economic environment now and the proposed wage bill cuts for the Public Sector this could prove problematic in the future. Good luck
I think this would only apply if the reason for the career break was to set up your own business.you are also allowed to be self-employed while on a career break.
Hi,
If you take a career break to "set up your own business", do you think it would be possible to setup as a sole trader & then if you get offered a job ask the company to employ you on a sole trader basis instead of through the PAYE system.
They would be saving on Employers PRSI and holiday & sick pay etc. so you would think they wouldn't mind....
and you would be working as a sole trader so technically working for your own business.....
I would imagine so, but I'm not an expert on how they would do this.Would they force the company to pay you through PAYE,
There is are two common misconceptions at work here:therefore requiring you to get your P45 off the job (civil service) you were on a career break from...
which would tip your old job off that you had got another job while on career break.
I know nothing about the civil service.if this happened would the civil service demand you return from career break immediately or could they cancel your contract beacuse of the breach?
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