WRC finds Valero Financial Limited employee entitled to redundancy payment

The Workplace Relations Commission found that Kajetan Soltys was entitled to a redundancy payment after upholding his complaint against Valero Financial Limited. The payment is to be based on employment from 1 January 2015 to 23 August 2021 and gross weekly pay of €429. In a decision dated 20 October 2022, the WRC said Soltys had been made redundant and had insurable employment for the duration of his employment. Soltys said he was laid off during the pandemic, was not offered his job back after the moratorium on the right to claim redundancy for long-term lay-off was lifted, and had not been paid redundancy. Valero Financial Limited did not attend the hearing, although its director had asked the WRC for more time shortly beforehand.