Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981

Notification of intermittent unemployment.

[1942 IU, s. 31]

254.—(1) Where a stoppage of work has occurred on any day and the employer of an insured person or the insured person claims that such stoppage constitutes intermittent unemployment, the employer shall on that day transmit to such person as the Minister may in any particular case direct or, in the absence of such direction, to a local officer a report stating that the stoppage has occurred, the duration thereof and the nature of the weather conditions alleged to have caused it.

(2) Where an insured person claims that he has been intermittently unemployed on any day, he may send to such person as the Minister may in any particular case direct or, in the absence of such direction, to a local officer a report stating that such intermittent unemployment has occurred, the duration thereof and the nature of the weather conditions alleged to have caused it, but this provision shall not be construed as relieving the employer of the insured person of the obligation imposed on him by subsection (1).

(3) Where a person receives a report under this section he shall as soon as may be acknowledge the receipt thereof.