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1st June 2021
The Pandemic Unemployment Payment will be completely phased out by February 8th next year.
The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme has been extended to the end of the year, under the government’s National Economic Plan.
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The plan sets out how Ireland is expected to recover over the coming months and years with Taoiseach Micheál Martin setting out their targets for getting people back to work:
As more people pick up jobs, pandemic supports will be phased out.
The Pandemic Unemployment Payment will be cut by 50 euro in September, and again in November, before being scrapped in February.
Tánaiste and Business Minister Leo Varadkar said employers should now draw up the appropriate working arrangements and policies, to ensure that employees will have more options to work outside of traditional hours, which many people have availed of during the pandemic.
Jane Murphy from the Employment Bar Association says dividing obligations between employer and employee seems sensible, particularly at a time when many employees are working flexibly and remotely and often using a number of different devices to communicate
“As a result, it is not as easy as it might have once been for an employer to monitor and manage working time and practices effectively. It, therefore, seems appropriate that obligations are placed on employees to protect their own right and the right of others to disconnect,” said Murphy.
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DUBLIN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The number of people in Ireland claiming temporary coronavirus-related jobless benefits rose by a further 18% in the last week to the highest level in six months after the government imposed the strictest lockdown since then.
Almost 400,000 people will receive the Pandemic Unemployment Payment this week after non-essential shops were shut at the end of December and building sites closed last week, data from the social protection department showed on Monday.
Up to 500,000 people will likely be in receipt of the weekly payment by the end of the month, shy of the 600,000 peak reached in April, Business Minister Leo Varadkar said on Monday. He predicted, however, that the vast majority would be back at work between Easter and the summer. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Alison Williams)