Originally Posted by Finbar10

If a person has been on temporary contracts in the same position for four years or more, the employer is legally required to offer them a permanent contract. Four years seems to be the cutoff point in Irish employment law. I know two people in my local authority who have been employed just under four years (one for about 3.5 years, the other for maybe only a month less than the four years) and they are both being left go. The one with less than a month to go is desperately trying to see if they can make up the gap with holiday entitlements etc. but still narrowly falls short. I think they are both pretty unlucky. If the **** hadn't hit the fan for another six months they'd both now be permanent. Seems the local authority is at the moment cutting all the temporary positions that it can.