Redundancy notice period Ireland (11 figures)
The Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules carries 11 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by rule run from 2 to 104 week, read 7 November 2026.
- 91 to 18
- 118 to 35
- 35 to 53
- 53 to 70
- 70 to 87
- 187 to 104
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 to 18 | 9 figures |
| 18 to 35 | 1 figure |
| 35 to 53 | 0 figures |
| 53 to 70 | 0 figures |
| 70 to 87 | 0 figures |
| 87 to 104 | 1 figure |
6 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
By rule and service band
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| rule continuous service before an employee must give notice | 13 week | 13 to 13 week | 1 |
| rule absence that still counts as service | 26 week | 26 to 26 week | 1 |
| rule paid time off during the last weeks of notice | 2 week | 2 to 2 week | 1 |
| rule minimum consultation period | 30 day | 30 to 30 day | 1 |
| rule extended time limit for reasonable cause | 12 month | 12 to 12 month | 1 |
| rule maximum fine for failing to notify the Minister | 250,000 EUR | 250,000 to 250,000 EUR | 1 |
| rule collective redundancy standstill (Protection of Employment Act 1977) | 30 day | 30 to 30 day | 1 |
| rule maximum compensation where financial loss is shown | 104 week | 104 to 104 week | 1 |
| rule maximum compensation where no financial loss is shown | 4 week | 4 to 4 week | 1 |
| rule time limit to make a complaint | 6 month | 6 to 6 month | 1 |
| rule time for an employer to carry out a Tribunal decision | 6 week | 6 to 6 week | 1 |
| service band 13 weeks to 2 years | 1 week | 1 to 1 week | 1 |
| service band 2 to 5 years | 2 week | 2 to 2 week | 1 |
| service band 5 to 10 years | 4 week | 4 to 4 week | 1 |
| service band 10 to 15 years | 6 week | 6 to 6 week | 1 |
| service band 15 years or more | 8 week | 8 to 8 week | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies | 250,000 EUR | maximum fine for failing to notify the Minister | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Dismissal | 104 week | maximum compensation where financial loss is shown | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies | 30 day | minimum consultation period | 2026-11-07 |
| Protection of Employment Act 1977 | 30 day | collective redundancy standstill (Protection of Employment Act 1977) | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Minimum Notice | 26 week | absence that still counts as service | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Minimum Notice | 13 week | continuous service before an employee must give notice | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies | 12 month | extended time limit for reasonable cause | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 8 week | 15 years or more | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 6 week | 10 to 15 years | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 6 month | time limit to make a complaint | 2026-11-07 |
| WRC - Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts leaflet | 6 week | time for an employer to carry out a Tribunal decision | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 4 week | 5 to 10 years | 2026-11-07 |
| Workplace Relations Commission - Dismissal | 4 week | maximum compensation where no financial loss is shown | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 2 week | 2 to 5 years | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 2 week | paid time off during the last weeks of notice | 2026-11-07 |
| Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods | 1 week | 13 weeks to 2 years | 2026-11-07 |
The sentence each figure was read from (16)
- Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies, read 2026-11-07:
An employer cannot make employees redundant until at least 30 days after notification of the proposed redundancy has been received by the Minister. An employer who breaches this obligation, if found guilty on indictment, shall be liable to a maximum fine of €250,000.
- Workplace Relations Commission - Dismissal, read 2026-11-07:
If an employee has incurred any financial loss attributable to the dismissal, payment by the employer of such compensation will not exceed 104 weeks remuneration in respect of the employment from which the employee was dismissed.
- Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies, read 2026-11-07:
to engage in an information and consultation process with employees’ representatives for at least 30 days, and
- Protection of Employment Act 1977, read 2026-11-07:
Collective redundancies not to take effect for 30 days.
- Workplace Relations Commission - Minimum Notice, read 2026-11-07:
Absence of up to 26 weeks between consecutive periods of employment count as periods of service if due to lay-offs, sickness or injury, or when taken by agreement with the employer.
- Workplace Relations Commission - Minimum Notice, read 2026-11-07:
Employees - Employees who have been in continuous employment for at least 13 weeks are obliged to provide their employer with one week’s notice of termination of employment.
- Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies, read 2026-11-07:
The WRC can extend this time period to 12 months if you can demonstrate reasonable cause.
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
Over 15 years 8 weeks
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
Between 10-15 years 6 weeks
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
All complaints must be made within 6 months.
- WRC - Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts leaflet, read 2026-11-07:
An employer must carry out a decision of the Tribunal within 6 weeks, unless the decision
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
Between 5-10 years 4 weeks
- Workplace Relations Commission - Dismissal, read 2026-11-07:
If the employee has incurred no financial loss, payment to the employee by the employer of such compensation if any will not exceed 4 weeks remuneration.
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
Between 2-5 years 2 weeks
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
If you are being made redundant, you are entitled by law, to paid time off during your last 2 weeks of notice to look for a new job.
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
Between 13 weeks and 2 years 1 week
Read in full, publishes no figure
12 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Citizens Information - Losing your job: entitlements, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- DETE - Notify the Minister of a proposed collective redundancy, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- gov.ie - Notify the Minister of a proposed collective redundancy, read 2026-09-19: every candidate on the page was refused
- Protection of Employment Act 1977, section 6 (the collective-redundancy thresholds), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- S.I. No. 324 of 2024 (collective redundancy notification), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, section 4, read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, Schedule 2, read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, section 6 (unfair selection for redundancy), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Citizens Information - Giving notice when leaving your job, read 2026-09-26: every candidate on the page was refused
- Workplace Relations Commission - Workplace Relations Legislation, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Citizens Information - Redundancy procedures, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
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).
6 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 12 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 for each breakdown it prices, in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 11 figures, never sentences; 38 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): one row per rule per threshold, quoted from the statute with its effective date, then joined so a single answer can be computed: the minimum-notice ladder by service band, the four collective-redundancy headcount thresholds against establishment size, the 30-day consultation and notification clocks and the penalty.
No authority publishes the notice ladder and the collective thresholds as one table, and no calculator tells a buyer whether their employer crossed a threshold.
38 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (18)
- Citizens Information - Redundancy notice periods(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission - Minimum Notice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information - Losing your job: entitlements(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission - Collective Redundancies(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- DETE - Notify the Minister of a proposed collective redundancy(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- gov.ie - Notify the Minister of a proposed collective redundancy(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Protection of Employment Act 1977(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Protection of Employment Act 1977, section 6 (the collective-redundancy thresholds)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- S.I. No. 324 of 2024 (collective redundancy notification)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, section 4(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, Schedule 2(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, section 6 (unfair selection for redundancy)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission - Dismissal(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information - Giving notice when leaving your job(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission - Workplace Relations Legislation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information - Redundancy procedures(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- WRC - Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts leaflet(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules carries 11 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by rule run from 2 to 104 week, read 7 November 2026.
6 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule continuous service before an employee must give notice: median 13 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule absence that still counts as service: median 26 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule paid time off during the last weeks of notice: median 2 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule minimum consultation period: median 30 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule extended time limit for reasonable cause: median 12 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule maximum fine for failing to notify the Minister: median 250,000 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule collective redundancy standstill (Protection of Employment Act 1977): median 30 day across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule maximum compensation where financial loss is shown: median 104 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule maximum compensation where no financial loss is shown: median 4 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule time limit to make a complaint: median 6 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, rule time for an employer to carry out a Tribunal decision: median 6 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, service band 13 weeks to 2 years: median 1 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, service band 2 to 5 years: median 2 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, service band 5 to 10 years: median 4 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, service band 10 to 15 years: median 6 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules, service band 15 years or more: median 8 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
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What notice was I owed, and did my employer have to consult and notify the Minister before making me redundant?
The Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules carries 11 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by rule run from 2 to 104 week, read 7 November 2026.
Where do the figures in the Notice and Collective Redundancy Rules come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 7 Nov 2026). 18 named sources were read and 6 publish a figure; the 12 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.