Brendan Burgess
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I am writing an article for my new website [broken link removed]on short-term working and I would like to confirm my understanding. This is what a friend's documentation calcualting her Jobseekers Benefit says.(I am paraphrasing it slightly as it's really badly written)
Systematic short-time working is defined in the operational guidelines as:
The number of days each week is reduced
At least one day per week is worked
It must be systematic - i.e. 2 days on/3 days off, followed by 3 days on/2 days off
Week on/Week off is not classified by Social Welfare as short-time working
Week on/Week off
Is presumably treated as normal unemployment. If you are off for a week, you get a week's Jobseekers Benefit
So the daily rate would be €34.05
I understand that the working week for such people is 6 days - Thursday to Wednesday (excluding Sunday)
So if you lose your job but get three days work, you will be regarded as unemployed for three days and would get €102.15 (€34.05 x 3)
So if someone is on the maximum Jobseekers Benefit of €204.30, they will get €40.86 per day. If they are off for 3 days in the week, they will earn €122.58.
Systematic short-time working is defined in the operational guidelines as:
The number of days each week is reduced
At least one day per week is worked
It must be systematic - i.e. 2 days on/3 days off, followed by 3 days on/2 days off
Week on/Week off is not classified by Social Welfare as short-time working
Week on/Week off
Is presumably treated as normal unemployment. If you are off for a week, you get a week's Jobseekers Benefit
I take it that this is for someone who has lost their job but gets occasional work from time to time.
So the daily rate would be €34.05
I understand that the working week for such people is 6 days - Thursday to Wednesday (excluding Sunday)
So if you lose your job but get three days work, you will be regarded as unemployed for three days and would get €102.15 (€34.05 x 3)