Paternity leave and redundancy

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Wexfordman

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Hi,

I am taking some paternity leave at the moment (down to a 3 day week). Obviously, this means my salary is reduced with this for the period I am taking the leave (almost 3 months).

There is a lot happening in work, outourcing and restructuring, so I was wondering, if I got made redundant, would the fact that I am earning less for the period of my paternity leave affect my redundancy payemnt, as I beleive it is calculated on average salary for a number of weeks preceeding the date of redundancy. Does anyone know if this is the case, as I am not so much worried about redundancy, just that any payment would be affecting by me currently being on paternity leave.

Thanks,
Wexfordman
 
Surely it's parental leave, not paternity leave you are taking? AFAIK (and I hope someone more knowledgeable comes along) taking parental leave does not change your terms and conditions of employment, you are not part time, you still have the same holidays.
 
I am of the same opinion as terrysgirl33 ... I believe that the only thing affected by parental leave is rate of pay - and that all other entitlements remain the same. I am sure Clubman will clarify this shortly with the appropriate link!
 
Wexfordman said:
Hi,

I am taking some paternity leave at the moment (down to a 3 day week). Obviously, this means my salary is reduced with this for the period I am taking the leave (almost 3 months).

There is a lot happening in work, outourcing and restructuring, so I was wondering, if I got made redundant, would the fact that I am earning less for the period of my paternity leave affect my redundancy payemnt, as I beleive it is calculated on average salary for a number of weeks preceeding the date of redundancy. Does anyone know if this is the case, as I am not so much worried about redundancy, just that any payment would be affecting by me currently being on paternity leave.

Thanks,
Wexfordman
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Some times it is calulated for the last 3 years slary, so if you earned 20k ,25k,45k then average would be 30K then it is calulated
 
so what would your entitlements be if you where only employed for 1 and a half years?

Joejoe
 
my2leftfeet said:
I am of the same opinion as terrysgirl33 ... I believe that the only thing affected by parental leave is rate of pay - and that all other entitlements remain the same. I am sure Clubman will clarify this shortly with the appropriate link!
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You mean like these?

CitizensInformation - Parental leave

You may also find some useful information on this site:

[broken link removed]

People should feel free to post these sorts of links themselves rather that waiting on me to do so!
 
joejoe said:
So if I am employed two years what are my entitlements?

Joejoe
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Under Schedule 3 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (as amended), after two years continuous service, you are entitled to a minimum statutory redundancy payment of:

(i) two weeks pay for each year of continuous employment
PLUS
(ii) an additional one week's normal earnings.

Two years of service will give you an entitlement to five weeks pay. You can check out how much this means financially using the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment calculator at:

www.entemp.ie/employment/redundancy/calculator.htm
 
Thats brilliant thanks very much I never knew there was such a thing.

Joejoe
 
It works out that as long as you have 104 weeks of unbroken employment and earn in excess of 600Euro per week you get a lump sum payment of 3k aprox.

Very interesting

Joejoe
 
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