Employment arises when you make either an oral or a written employment contract and begin working for an employer under the employer’s direction and supervision. This work may either be done at a certain workplace, or at one or more other places of work agreed with the employer.
Employment requires your employer to pay an earnings-related pension contribution and other statutory social insurance contributions on your pay.
The basic elements of employment are:
Work in the public sector may also be part of a public service appointment. Public servants are appointed to service positions in nationa government and officials in loca government wellbeing services counties and parishes. Their terms and conditions of service are governed by public service collective agreements made between public authorities and staff organisations. Most local authority staff are ordinary employees and not public servants in this sense.
In temporary employment you agree the times when the employment begins and ends with the employer.
Fixed-term employment relationships must usually have a justified reason, such as working as a substitute.
A fixed-term employment relationship may be concluded without a justified reason if it is the first employment contract between the employer and the employee during the five years preceding the date of concluding the employment contract.
A fixed-term employment relationship concluded without a justified reason may last for a maximum of one year. The contract may be renewed no more than twice within the year, and the total duration of the contracts may not exceed one year.
If the employment relationship has been concluded without a justified reason, the employer must, at the employee’s request, provide the employee with a justified account concerning the possibility of continuing the employment relationship on the basis of an indefinitely valid employment contract or, for a justified reason, on the basis of a fixed-term employment relationship.
A person may be appointed to a temporary public service position in national or local government, in a wellbeing services county or in a parish when there is a justification for doing so. This temporary public service position will end when the fixed period is completed. A public servant who has been appointed for a fixed period without justification may be eligible for compensation of between 6 and 24 months’ salary for unfounded temporary public service appointment after the employment has ended. A temporary public service appointment may be terminated with notice or with immediate effect on the same grounds as an open-ended public service appointment.