WRC upholds Cynthia Carroll’s redundancy complaint against Mullingar Arts Centre

The Workplace Relations Commission found Cynthia Carroll’s redundancy complaint well founded and directed Mullingar Arts Centre Company Limited By Guarantee to pay her statutory redundancy entitlements. The decision was dated 7 August 2024. Carroll said she had been laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic and that the respondent failed to answer her request for redundancy payment. The respondent said she had been laid off rather than made redundant and was offered a return to work. The adjudication officer found that Carroll had been laid off for the qualifying period and that the respondent had not issued a counter-notice to her RP9 form. Her continuous service was reckoned from 27 November 1998, with gross weekly pay of €174, subject to her having been in insurable employment during the relevant period.