{ "name": "redundancycalculatorireland.com IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement", "title": "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement", "url": "https://redundancycalculatorireland.com/datasets/ie-statutory-redundancy-entitlement/", "csv": "https://redundancycalculatorireland.com/datasets/ie-statutory-redundancy-entitlement.csv", "markdown": "https://redundancycalculatorireland.com/datasets/ie-statutory-redundancy-entitlement/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-11-08", "license": "https://redundancycalculatorireland.com/terms", "headline": "The IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement carries 6 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 4 published figures given without a breakdown run from 600 to 600 EUR, read 7 November 2026.", "quotes": [ "The IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement carries 6 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 4 published figures given without a breakdown run from 600 to 600 EUR, read 7 November 2026.", "8 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure insolvency payments scheme weekly ceiling: median 600 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure bonus week: median 1 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure weeks per year of service: median 2 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure annual ceiling on reckonable earnings: median 31,200 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure non-reckonable absence look-back period: median 3 year across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure time limit to claim after dismissal: median 1 year across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.", "IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, figure qualifying continuous service: median 2 year across 1 source, read 7 November 2026." ], "citation": "\"redundancycalculatorireland.com IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement\", updated 2026-11-08, https://redundancycalculatorireland.com/datasets/ie-statutory-redundancy-entitlement/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "EUR", "n": 6, "median": 600, "min": 600, "max": 31200, "p25": 600, "p75": 8250, "mean": 5700, "units": { "EUR": 6, "week": 2, "year": 3 }, "published_sources": 8, "named_sources": 18, "read_sources": 18, "not_published": 10, "published_share": 0.444 }, "by_axis": { "figure": { "insolvency payments scheme weekly ceiling": { "EUR": { "n": 1, "median": 600, "min": 600, "max": 600, "p25": 600, "p75": 600, "mean": 600 } }, "bonus week": { "week": { "n": 1, "median": 1, "min": 1, "max": 1, "p25": 1, "p75": 1, "mean": 1 } }, "weeks per year of service": { "week": { "n": 1, "median": 2, "min": 2, "max": 2, "p25": 2, "p75": 2, "mean": 2 } }, "annual ceiling on reckonable earnings": { "EUR": { "n": 1, "median": 31200, "min": 31200, "max": 31200, "p25": 31200, "p75": 31200, "mean": 31200 } }, "non-reckonable absence look-back period": { "year": { "n": 1, "median": 3, "min": 3, "max": 3, "p25": 3, "p75": 3, "mean": 3 } }, "time limit to claim after dismissal": { "year": { "n": 1, "median": 1, "min": 1, "max": 1, "p25": 1, "p75": 1, "mean": 1 } }, "qualifying continuous service": { "year": { "n": 1, "median": 2, "min": 2, "max": 2, "p25": 2, "p75": 2, "mean": 2 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment - Redundancy payments", "url": "https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/workplace-and-skills/redundancy-payments/", "figure": "€600 ", "value": 600, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "An eligible employee is entitled to two weeks normal weekly remuneration for every year of service, plus a bonus week. The redundancy lump sum calculation is based on the worker’s length of reckonable service and weekly remuneration, which is subject to a ceiling of €600 per week.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "8804103d39fd7fc08078e551f02194b72e32c417fd7d48fb72ec9423c93ef52f" }, { "source": "Department of Social Protection - Redundancy Payment Scheme", "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/services/redundancy-payment-scheme/", "figure": "€600 ", "value": 600, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "The rate of statutory redundancy is two weeks’ pay for every year of service (over the age of 16) plus one additional week’s pay. Payment is subject to a limit of €600 per week.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "8debf1a45acc70c950dc9469e45d7253d48a3637e0010ffefde1c76f6b4798ab" }, { "source": "Department of Social Protection - Redundancy and Insolvency Overview: Employee Entitlements", "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/collections/redundancy-and-insolvency-overview-employee-entitlements/", "figure": "€600 ", "value": 600, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Statutory redundancy is equivalent to 2 weeks’ pay for every year of service plus 1 additional bonus week, subject to a maximum of €600 per week.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6de5fa8f41b10f00836b36b5c90d535490af1db44de8502b376d954efb5a8401" }, { "source": "S.I. No. 695/2004 (irishstatutebook.ie print view)", "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/si/695/made/en/print", "figure": "€600 ", "value": 600, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "The purpose of these Regulations is to raise the ceiling on annual reckonable earnings to be taken into account in the calculation of a statutory redundancy lump sum payment from €26,411 (€507.90 per week) (being £20,800 at the date of the last increase on 1st April, 2001 or £400 per week) to €31,200, (€600 per week) from 1st January, 2005.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "df9fce68d2a7ae40633df99ce6c41faa48b5019e1f62352b12dac8302cae7d76" }, { "source": "Department of Social Protection - Insolvency Payments Scheme", "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/services/insolvency-payments-scheme/", "figure": "€600 ", "value": 600, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "insolvency payments scheme weekly ceiling" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Gross weekly wage is capped at €600 per week.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "7778ab50a66f9df42910330c6f2fa10bd74c29054824fcef3e7d6a5691dfdc74" }, { "source": "Workplace Relations Commission - Redundancy", "url": "https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending%20the%20employment%20relationship/redundancy/", "figure": "one week", "value": 1, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "bonus week" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "The statutory redundancy payment is two week’s gross pay per year of service up to a ceiling of €600 per week plus one week’s bonus pay, which is also subject to the ceiling of €600.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "1135b5dd461e31edb56a8263e5effa1e9a1441350475fde0c23d04d90d661ced" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - How much redundancy pay will I get?", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-payments/", "figure": "Two weeks", "value": 2, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "weeks per year of service" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Two weeks' pay for every year of service", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6cd59b4894d7c261a64208591c8a1b1a8e12ebd16aeb8bc1ca177fa3cdb0e59b" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - How much redundancy pay will I get?", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-payments/", "figure": "€31,200 ", "value": 31200, "unit": "EUR", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "annual ceiling on reckonable earnings" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "The maximum weekly amount used to calculate redundancy pay is €600 a week (or €31,200 a year), even if your pay is more per week.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6cd59b4894d7c261a64208591c8a1b1a8e12ebd16aeb8bc1ca177fa3cdb0e59b" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - How much redundancy pay will I get?", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-payments/", "figure": "3 years", "value": 3, "unit": "year", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "non-reckonable absence look-back period" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Some absences from work over the last 3 years are deducted from your reckonable service.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6cd59b4894d7c261a64208591c8a1b1a8e12ebd16aeb8bc1ca177fa3cdb0e59b" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - How much redundancy pay will I get?", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-payments/", "figure": "one year", "value": 1, "unit": "year", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "time limit to claim after dismissal" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "This must be done within one year of your dismissal.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6cd59b4894d7c261a64208591c8a1b1a8e12ebd16aeb8bc1ca177fa3cdb0e59b" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - Do I have a right to redundancy pay?", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/right-to-redundancy-pay/", "figure": "two years", "value": 2, "unit": "year", "vat": null, "axis": { "figure": "qualifying continuous service" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "You are entitled to get a minimum redundancy payment after you have two years’ service in your job.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "d53b1f092ac6cfb0e0d34f97fcf299d15b51282349fe274101ef797ac6c40e27" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, Schedule 3 (as enacted)", "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1967/act/21/schedule/3/enacted/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-19", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, Schedule 3 (revised, Law Reform Commission)", "url": "https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/1967/act/21/schedule/3/revised/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - Lay-off, short-time working and redundancy", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/lay-off-short-time-working-and-redundancy/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - Problems getting your redundancy pay", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/problems-getting-redundancy-pay/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, section 19 (payment of lump sum)", "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1967/act/21/section/19/enacted/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 1979, section 4", "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1979/act/7/section/4/enacted/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 2003", "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2003/act/14/enacted/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, revised front matter", "url": "https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/1967/act/21/front/revised/en/html", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-24", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Workplace Relations Commission - Insolvency", "url": "https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending%20the%20employment%20relationship/insolvency/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Citizens Information - Redundancy (section index)", "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-payments/", "label": "Citizens Information - How much redundancy pay will I get?", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending%20the%20employment%20relationship/redundancy/", "label": "Workplace Relations Commission - Redundancy", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/workplace-and-skills/redundancy-payments/", "label": "Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment - Redundancy payments", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/collections/redundancy-and-insolvency-overview-employee-entitlements/", "label": "Department of Social Protection - Redundancy and Insolvency Overview: Employee Entitlements", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/services/redundancy-payment-scheme/", "label": "Department of Social Protection - Redundancy Payment Scheme", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1967/act/21/schedule/3/enacted/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, Schedule 3 (as enacted)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/1967/act/21/schedule/3/revised/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, Schedule 3 (revised, Law Reform Commission)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/right-to-redundancy-pay/", "label": "Citizens Information - Do I have a right to redundancy pay?", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/lay-off-short-time-working-and-redundancy/", "label": "Citizens Information - Lay-off, short-time working and redundancy", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/services/insolvency-payments-scheme/", "label": "Department of Social Protection - Insolvency Payments Scheme", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/problems-getting-redundancy-pay/", "label": "Citizens Information - Problems getting your redundancy pay", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1967/act/21/section/19/enacted/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, section 19 (payment of lump sum)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1979/act/7/section/4/enacted/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 1979, section 4", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2003/act/14/enacted/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 2003", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/si/695/made/en/print", "label": "S.I. No. 695/2004 (irishstatutebook.ie print view)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/1967/act/21/front/revised/en/html", "label": "Redundancy Payments Act 1967, revised front matter", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending%20the%20employment%20relationship/insolvency/", "label": "Workplace Relations Commission - Insolvency", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/", "label": "Citizens Information - Redundancy (section index)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in EUR (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 95 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the ceiling's bite. The EUR600 weekly cap has not moved since 1 January 2005; set against the CSO's average weekly earnings by sector and quarter it gives, for every year since it was set, the share of employees whose statutory entitlement is capped and the real (CPI-deflated) value of the cap. Every authority publishes the cap; none publishes what it is now worth or whom it now binds.", "embed": "

600 to 600 EUR

4 of 6 published figures (no breakdown), IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement, across 6 sources, read 7 November 2026

Source: redundancycalculatorireland.com IE Statutory Redundancy Entitlement
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