WRC says Michael Joseph Murphy’s redundancy complaint was out of time

The Workplace Relations Commission found that Michael Joseph Murphy’s complaint about his 2014 redundancy package was filed outside the statutory time limit. The WRC decision, dated 2 February 2024, also said it had no jurisdiction to examine the disputed ex-gratia payment; the merits were not decided. Murphy said a change in the calculation method left his exit payment €11,000 lower than he had expected. Both parties accepted that his statutory redundancy payment was correctly calculated. The dispute concerned the additional ex-gratia part of the package.