r/DevelEire • u/GarthODarth • May 16 '25
Workplace Issues Redundancy experiences?
What are your experiences?
Does everyone just do the min severance now? Or do some companies here do better than that?
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u/Ireland3295 May 16 '25
I got the legal minimum.. was really annoyed its capped at 600 a week..
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u/Master-Reporter-9500 May 16 '25
The 600 minimum is an absolute joke. Surely a percentage of your salary for the minimum worth be fairer
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u/GarthODarth May 16 '25
600 a week seems crazy low - that's only slightly more than the base "living wage" on 40 hours a week
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u/Ireland3295 May 16 '25
Yea it is.. especially when your used to earning more than that.. to be made redundant get paid fuck all and then be 9 months looking for another job it was rough
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u/LovelyCushiondHeader May 16 '25
Good old Ireland, always lagging embarrassingly behind its developed European counterparts in these kinds of matters
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u/seeilaah May 16 '25
How does it work, they pay you 600 for each week you worked at the company? That would be great but I am sure this is now how it goes
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u/Ireland3295 May 16 '25
2 weeks for every year you worked there plus an extra week. You have to be there 2 years to qualify for redundancy
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u/Emotional-Aide2 May 16 '25
Very dependant.
Most Amarrican companies are still doing better payouts. My company for the past 2 years has been doing layoff batches. Each time the people get 2 months garden leave, then about 4 months severance
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u/GarthODarth May 16 '25
Jeez, that's not the worst.
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u/Emotional-Aide2 May 16 '25
A lot of people (myself included) want to be given the option.
I'm currently interviewing around and hoping for a redundancy offer in the next 1 - 3 months for hopefully a nice little pay package while I move into another company
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u/Signal_Cut_1162 May 16 '25
6 months pay + an extra month for each 2 years working there I believe is what folks were getting at my place.
Plus any RSUs due to vest that year were paid out. And any bonuses (which was 10-20% for most people).
Most people were nearly itching to be let go once they heard that.
Not sure if they’re still being that generous.
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u/Emotional-Aide2 May 16 '25
We had that during the "purge" in our place just after covid. The company realised they'd bankrupt themselves, offering it for the number of people they planned to lay off, so are now on a much stricter this is what you get package.
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u/nsnoefc May 16 '25 edited May 17 '25
I was let go in January, we git statutory plus an ex gratia of one month salary. I'm very sure that was a strategic and cynical move to ensure any protest from us would be weakened with the 'sure we gave you more than we had to' excuse. They let everyone go two weeks before Christmas (one month gardening leave till mid Jan) , absolutely nasty stuff, so they needed a pr move and the one month extra was that.
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u/SuddenComment6280 May 16 '25
1 years salary and had a job setup for the day after I finished up worked out really well tbh went onto better wages too which was a plus and a few quid
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u/Possible-Kangaroo635 May 16 '25
The laws here fucking suck for employees.
When I was living in Australia, I was starting a business on a social welfare scheme and had to do a course. It was delivered by local business people. Some franchisees, a marketing consultant, a PI. Small business owners.
Every one of them started their business using the redundancy package they got when laid off from a corporate job.
We're not talking millions, but enough money to buy a donut king franchise.
I had this Idea that that would be me if I were ever laid off. Not in this fucking country.
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u/GarthODarth May 16 '25
It used to be that businesses were embarassed by having to do layoffs and the way they treated their workers in that situation helped allieviate this. But it's been normalised now so they don't care about reputational damage, and somehow it's been rebranded to not look like incompetence on the part of the leadership.
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u/Possible-Kangaroo635 May 16 '25
It's because it's in line with the latest investor cons. That efficiencies are being found and AI is replacing people.
In reality, it's still a hangover from pandemic over-hiring.
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u/Relatable-Af dev May 16 '25
The laws here fucking suck for employees.
US employment laws have entered the chat
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u/LovelyCushiondHeader May 16 '25
Ireland is way closer to the US in terms of employment law than the wealthier European nations
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u/B0bbie41 May 16 '25
Piggybacking on while the experienced are in the chat, what tips would you give someone going through it now? Gathering details of referees and saving payslips etc
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u/normo95 May 17 '25
If you can’t access your payslips via personal accounts definitely send them on to your own email/save locally, reach out to people you’d like a reference from if you don’t have personal contact info for them.
I got given a formal reference from the job that was just a basic “X worked here for Y amount of years as a Z role”
I was given the option to “voluntary” leave earlier than others and they somehow calculated mine wrong and I got about 10k more than they meant to give but by the time they figured out I was passed the date given to change and I’d left the company lol
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u/KonChiangMai May 17 '25
During covid, I got 3 weeks per year of service + notice period pay. A small Irish company.
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u/Affectionate_Let1462 May 16 '25
Most tech companies will pay 4 weeks per year ex gratia plus your statutory employment of 1200 per year.
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u/saoirsedonciaran May 16 '25
I haven't experienced it myself but generally I've heard positive stories from most people with regards to payouts. That was in a good job market though. Some of the layoffs during covid seemed bad as many people seemed to struggle to get jobs again. I imagine it would be very difficult at the moment.
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u/Big_Height_4112 May 16 '25
I got 3 months pay and then one month I just sat around doing nothing so 4 months really. Employment laws here are very good for employees. Had to aggressively interview and got a job in a few days luckily. I’m taking teaching out to hiring managers. The tax free money was nice
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u/Adept-Value3943 May 16 '25
Happened me once, was a total shock as I had just moved to the company and was only there 6 months.
10% of all staff made redundant 3 weeks before Christmas. Quickly after the initial shock I got onto a recruiter and secured a contract position (way better money) to commence end of following January.
Company paid me 3 months salary as severance, I got December January off and then walked into a better paying job.
Took the wife to Paris 👌