WRC rejects Derek Booth’s redundancy payment complaint

The Workplace Relations Commission disallowed Derek Booth’s complaint seeking a redundancy payment after finding he had not established that his employment ended by reason of redundancy. The decision was dated 20 November 2023. Booth sought a payment when his employment under the Tús scheme ended. Booth argued that the employer had decided to operate with fewer or no employees. Meath Community Rural & Social Development Partnership Limited Meath Partnership accepted that he was an employee with more than two years’ continuous service, but said his contract had ended naturally and it continued to operate with the same number of employees. The adjudicator found Booth had not shown that the employer had decided to operate with fewer or no employees, and found he had not established entitlement to a redundancy payment.