Notice period meaning: IE Statutory Notice
The IE Statutory Notice carries 17 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 9 published figures given by jurisdiction run from 1 to 12 week, read 7 November 2026.
- 111 to 4
- 14 to 7
- 17 to 10
- 310 to 13
- 13 to 16
- 16 to 20
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 11 figures |
| 4 to 7 | 1 figure |
| 7 to 10 | 1 figure |
| 10 to 13 | 3 figures |
| 13 to 16 | 0 figures |
| 16 to 20 | 0 figures |
6 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
By jurisdiction
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdictionGreat Britain | 1month | 1 to 1month | 1 |
| jurisdictionGreat Britain | 1week | 1 to 1week | 1 |
| jurisdictionIreland | 1week | 1 to 1week | 1 |
| jurisdictionNorthern Ireland | 1month | 1 to 1month | 1 |
| jurisdictionNorthern Ireland | 1week | 1 to 1week | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (21)
- Workplace Relations Commission: minimum notice, read 2026-11-07:
Absence of up to 26 weeks between consecutive periods of employment count as periods of service if due to lay-offs, sickness or injury, or when taken by agreement with the employer.
- Workplace Relations Commission: minimum notice, read 2026-11-07:
Employees - Employees who have been in continuous employment for at least 13 weeks are obliged to provide their employer with one week’s notice of termination of employment.
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than twelve weeks’ notice if his period of continuous employment is twelve years or more.
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than twelve weeks' notice if his period of continuous employment is twelve years or more.
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements, read 2026-11-07:
15 years or more 8 weeks
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements, read 2026-11-07:
10 years to 15 years 6 weeks
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements, read 2026-11-07:
5 years to 10 years 4 weeks
- Citizens Information: redundancy notice periods, read 2026-11-07:
If you are being made redundant, you are entitled by law, to paid time off during your last 2 weeks of notice to look for a new job.
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements, read 2026-11-07:
2 years to 5 years 2 weeks
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements, read 2026-11-07:
13 weeks to 2 years 1 week
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
The notice required to be given by an employer to terminate the contract of employment of a person who has been continuously employed for one month or more—
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than one week’s notice if his period of continuous employment is less than two years,
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than one week’s notice for each year of continuous employment if his period of continuous employment is two years or more but less than twelve years, and
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
The notice required to be given by an employee who has been continuously employed for one month or more to terminate his contract of employment is not less than one week.
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain), read 2026-11-07:
Any provision for shorter notice in any contract of employment with a person who has been continuously employed for one month or more has effect subject to subsections (1) and (2); but this section does not prevent either party from waiving his right to notice on any occasion or from accepting a payment in lieu of notice.
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.6 (right of employer to notice), read 2026-11-07:
1967 or to give notice of intention to claim redundancy payment in respect of lay-off or short-time under section 12 of that Act, be entitled to not less than one week's notice from an employee who has been in his continuous employment for thirteen weeks or more of that employee's intention to terminate his contract of employ
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
118.—(1) The notice required to be given by an employer to terminate the contract of employment of a person who has been continuously employed for one month or more—
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than one week's notice if his period of continuous employment is less than two years,
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
is not less than one week's notice for each year of continuous employment if his period of continuous employment is two years or more but less than twelve years, and
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
(2) The notice required to be given by an employee who has been continuously employed for one month or more to terminate his contract of employment is not less than one week.
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice), read 2026-11-07:
(3) Any provision for shorter notice in any contract of employment with a person who has been continuously employed for one month or more has effect subject to paragraphs (1) and (2); but this Article does not prevent either party from waiving his right to notice on any occasion or from accepting a payment in lieu of notice.
Read in full, publishes no figure
10 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.4 (minimum period of notice), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.4, revised (Law Reform Commission), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.5 (rights of employee during period of notice), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 (as enacted, full text), read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 s.2 (exclusions), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 s.3 (written statement of terms), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Workplace Relations Commission: what you should know, read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Citizens Information: giving notice when leaving your job, read 2026-09-26: every candidate on the page was refused
- Citizens Information: employment laws in Ireland, read 2026-10-17: every candidate on the page was refused
- Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
6 of the 16 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 38 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per term - the service threshold at which any notice is owed, the employer-side ladder, the employee-side minimum, the rights that run during notice, waiver and payment in lieu, and the service at which unfair-dismissal protection begins - each quoted from the section or article that states it with its effective date.
The derivation nobody publishes is the THREE-LADDER comparison on one island: Ireland under the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 (nothing owed below thirteen weeks' service, then one week rising to eight at fifteen years), Northern Ireland under art.118 of the Employment Rights (NI) Order 1996 and Great Britain under ERA 1996 s.86 (both owing from one month's service and running to twelve weeks at twelve years), with the crossover point at which each ladder overtakes the others; plus changed-since, which is what turns an amendment into news
38 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (16)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.4 (minimum period of notice)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.4, revised (Law Reform Commission)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.5 (rights of employee during period of notice)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 s.6 (right of employer to notice)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 (as enacted, full text)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art.118 (rights to minimum notice)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86 (rights to minimum notice, Great Britain)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 s.2 (exclusions)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 s.3 (written statement of terms)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission: minimum notice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Workplace Relations Commission: what you should know(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information: giving notice when leaving your job(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information: redundancy notice periods(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information: losing your job - entitlements(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Citizens Information: employment laws in Ireland(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The IE Statutory Notice carries 17 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 9 published figures given by jurisdiction run from 1 to 12 week, read 7 November 2026.
6 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
IE Statutory Notice, jurisdiction Great Britain: median 1 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
IE Statutory Notice, jurisdiction Great Britain: median 1 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
IE Statutory Notice, jurisdiction Ireland: median 1 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
IE Statutory Notice, jurisdiction Northern Ireland: median 1 month across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
IE Statutory Notice, jurisdiction Northern Ireland: median 1 week across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
Cite as: "noticeperiodireland.com IE Statutory Notice", updated 2026-11-08, https://noticeperiodireland.com/datasets/ie-statutory-notice/.
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Questions this data answers
How much notice must each side give under Irish law at each length of continuous service, and what displaces, extends or pays for it?
The IE Statutory Notice carries 17 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 9 published figures given by jurisdiction run from 1 to 12 week, read 7 November 2026.
Where do the figures in the IE Statutory Notice come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 7 Nov 2026). 16 named sources were read and 6 publish a figure; the 10 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.