# Notice Period Ireland

> How much notice period you are entitled to in Ireland by length of service, from one week to eight. Statutory notice, contract notice, and what you must give.

## Key facts

- Statutory notice in Ireland starts only after 13 weeks of continuous service, then rises through five bands from one week to eight weeks at 15 years or more.
- Citizens Information's own worked example: an employee with five years and three months of service gets four weeks' notice, worth €3,600 at €900 a week. This calculator returns the same four weeks for that service length.
- An employee's own obligation is flat. The Workplace Relations Commission states that employees with at least 13 weeks of continuous employment must give one week's notice, whatever their length of service, unless the contract requires more.

## Key pages

- [Notice period in Ireland: how much are you entitled to?](https://noticeperiodireland.com/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [Statutory notice vs contract notice in Ireland](https://noticeperiodireland.com/statutory-notice-vs-contract-notice/): A contract can give more notice than the law requires but never less. How the two interact, what happens when a contract is silent, and which one wins in practice.
- [How much notice must an employee give in Ireland?](https://noticeperiodireland.com/notice-an-employee-must-give/): One week, once you have 13 weeks of continuous service, unless your contract asks for more. What happens if you give less, and whether you can leave early.
- [Pay in lieu of notice in Ireland: how it works](https://noticeperiodireland.com/pay-in-lieu-of-notice/): Payment instead of working your notice, what you should be paid, how it interacts with a jobseeker's payment, and where redundancy notice differs.
- [Statutory minimum notice in Ireland by length of service](https://noticeperiodireland.com/#data): original data table, updated 2026-08-15.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://noticeperiodireland.com/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- Statutory minimum notice in Ireland by length of service. Methodology: Notice weeks are the statutory bands applied by this page's own formulas for notice given by an employer, with no contractual notice entered. Notice pay is the weeks multiplied by a €900 gross weekly wage, chosen only as a round illustration. Your own figure scales directly with your weekly pay.
- Last updated: 2026-08-15. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: Workplace Relations Commission, minimum notice: https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending-the-employment-relationship/minimum-notice/
- Source: Citizens Information, losing your job: entitlements: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/losing-your-job/losing-job-entitlements/
- Source: Citizens Information, leaving your job and giving notice: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/starting-work-and-changing-job/changing-job/giving-notice/
- Source: Citizens Information, redundancy notice periods: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment-and-redundancy/redundancy/redundancy-notice-periods/
- Source: Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, section 4: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1973/act/4/section/4/enacted/en/html
- Source: Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, section 6: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1973/act/4/section/6/enacted/en/html

## Citation

Cite as: "Statutory minimum notice in Ireland by length of service", Notice Period Ireland, https://noticeperiodireland.com/ (updated 2026-08-15).

## About

- Notice Period Ireland is an information site. It is not affiliated with the Workplace Relations Commission, Citizens Information or any government body, and nothing here is legal advice. Statutory notice is only one part of an exit: take advice from a solicitor or the Workplace Relations Commission before agreeing anything or missing a complaint deadline.
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