Section 20 of the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 – Amendment of First Schedule to Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act, 1973
Revised Act prepared by the Law Reform Commission, updated to 3 July 2023. Amendments made after that date are not included.
The First Schedule to the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act, 1973, is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraphs 5 and 7:
“5. An employee who claims and receives redundancy payment in respect of lay-off or short time shall be deemed to have voluntarily left his employment.
7.Where the whole or part of a trade, business or undertaking was or is transferred to another person either before or after the passing of this Act, the service of an employee in the trade, business or undertaking, or the part thereof, so transferred shall be reckoned as part of the service of the employee with the transferee and the transfer shall not operate to break the continuity of the service of the employee.”.
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