Redundancy - to include accounting training contract time?

[tina2201]

Hopefully someone can help me here.
I was always of the opinion that an accountants training contract does not count when it comes to redundancy. However, yesterday someone mentioned to me that where you are kept on past the training contract this time is included in calculating your time of service for a later redundancy. All I can find searching is that termination at the end of a training contract does not qualify for redundancy, which makes sense. But I cant find anything confirming if you are made redundant a number of years later does the no of years start counting from your original start date or from the day after your training contract finished?
Would appreciate if anyone could clarify this for me.

 

[Ildánach]

The time calculated for redundancy purposes is known as reckonable service. The rules are that the following is considered as reckonable service and is therefore taken into account:

The period you were actually in work
Any period of absence from work due to holidays
Any period of absence from work due to illness (see below for non-reckonable periods of illness)
Any period where you were absent from work by agreement with your employer (typically career break)
Any period of basic and additional maternity leave allowed under the legislation
Any period of basic adoptive/parental/carer's leave
Any period of lock-out from your employment
Any period where the continuity of your employment is preserved under the Unfair Dismissals Acts.

The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed run an information line for unemployment and redundancy related queries on 01 856 0088 and might be able to help clarify whether your training contract counts as time worked