Hurley v Creative Furniture Portlaoise Ltd

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Ireland)
• Judgment Date: 04 April 2016
• Judgment citation (vLex): [2016] 4 JIEC 0407
• Docket Number: RP16/2015
• Date: 04 April 2016

EMPLOYMENT APPEALS TRIBUNAL

CASE NO. RP16/2015

APPEAL OF:

Aisling Hurley

and

Creative Furniture Portlaoise Limited

under

REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACTS 1967 TO 2007

I certify that the Tribunal

(Division of Tribunal)

Chairman: Ms P. Clancy

Members: Mr D. Hegarty

Ms. P. Doyle

heard this appeal at Limerick on 4th April 2016

Background:

1 The appellant gave evidence of receiving notice of redundancy (regret of closure of the business) on 7^th November 2014 with a termination date of 5^th December 2014. On her last day of work she received a phone call from the employer asking if she could come in for an extra few days, maybe up to 19^th December. He told her that he needed to know immediately and the appellant (who had already made other arrangements) agreed to do so after a telephone conversation with her husband. She sent an e-mail to managing director on 10^th December seeking her redundancy payment and seeking new written contractual arrangements for future work. He replied that he was in the UK, would ask his accountant for...