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  • 01-06-2009 3:55pm
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    Bintools
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    i work in a company that has agency workers and permanent employees side by side. they use agency workers to pretend to shareholders that staff costs are low. a few of them are getting there marching orders now with 2 weeks notice and no redundancy regardless of lenght of time working there.one of them worked there for 3 years. is this legal?can they not get some form of redundancy?the company is a big global company and not doing all that badly.thanks


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    patftrears
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    Bintools wrote: »
    ino redundancy regardless of lenght of time working there.one of them worked there for 3 years. is this legal?can they not get some form of redundancy?
    The way this usually works is that the employee actually works 1) for the agency or in some cases 2) have their own limited company.
    So technically they are not employed by your company, and have no rights.


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    Mrs OBumble
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    patftrears wrote: »
    The way this usually works is that the employee actually works 1) for the agency or in some cases 2) have their own limited company.
    So technically they are not employed by your company, and have no rights.

    If the agency workers are employees of the agency, they are entitled to redundancy from the agency, in the same way as from any other employer.

    However if they are contractors to the agency, they are not employees of anyone (except perhaps their own company, and even then they're probably directors rather than employees), so no entitlement.

    How to tell the difference: does the agency pay them wages or salary, which has tax/PRSI deducted? If so, they're employees.


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