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COVID-19 Information for Employers
From Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
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If you are an employer who can show that you have lost at least 25 percent of your trade - you will be able to claim 70 percent of your employees net wage back (up to a maximum of €410) through the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme
Employers have to sign up to the scheme through Revenue.
All employers who have applied to the older COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme will be automatically transferred onto the new, higher payment.
If you need to place your employees on a shorter working week or have had to cut their hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, your employees can apply for Short Time Work Support .
A number of income supports are available from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for your employees during a COVID-19 (Coronavirus) related absence or temporary lay-off from work:
- How to close a claim for the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
- COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information for Employers and Employees
- workers who are not diagnosed with COVID-19 but who self-isolate
- workers whose employers do not supplement/top-up the State Illness Benefit payment (COVID-19)
- workers who are requested to stay at home by their employer (COVID-19)
- workers who need to take time off work to care for a person affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- How to repay COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments
- For members of the public, confidential reporting facilities are available here
- For employers to report cases of suspected mis-claiming, please Email C19EmployerReports@welfare.ie
