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 work
"The daily rate is one-fifth of the full weekly rate. If you are on Systematic Short-time work, the number of day's payment you get each week and the number of days you work will not be more than five(5)"
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
Casual or part-time
If you are doing casual or part-time work, we pay one sixth of the full weekly rate for each day you are unemployed.
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)