Redundancy Claim Defence – Redeployment

An employee will likely be disentitled to a redundancy payment if they have been offered alternative employment by the employer but they unreasonably refuse.

The employer must have either drafted a new contract or stated they will renew the existing contract and the employer makes this offer in writing.

The offer should be reasonable and suitable alternative employment.

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redundancy claim defence

This provision ie S.15 of the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967, covers redeployment to a different office or location.

What is the suitable alternative employment evidently is what the employee will need to assess.

Does it put them at a disadvantage where the commute is unreasonable, for example.

If an employees new commute isn’t feasible there may be grounds for claiming redundancy and a constructive dismissal claim for breach of contract.

An issue can arise in relation to a reduction of salary on redeployment.

Where a redeployment takes place and the employees salary is reduced to less than one-half of his/her normal weekly remuneration, or his/her hours of work are reduced substantially but not to less than one-half of his normal weekly hours, and the employee temporarily accepts the reduction in remuneration or hours of work, and indicates his/her acceptance to his employer for temporary acceptance, then for the following 52 weeks the law states the employee will not be deemed to have accepted the alternative employment.

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