WRC rejects Tomasz Nawrot’s redundancy payment claim

The Workplace Relations Commission rejected Tomasz Nawrot’s claim for a statutory redundancy payment from Hillbilly's Distribution Limitied. The decision, dated 23 March 2023, found that Nawrot resigned after declining invitations to return to work when the company reopened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nawrot said he was laid off in March 2020 and was not invited back when other employees returned. The company said it invited him to resume work, but he declined. The adjudication officer accepted the company’s account and found that Nawrot was not entitled to a redundancy payment because he had resigned rather than return to his job.