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Under Irish law, a new hire must receive a written statement covering 11 specified employment terms within their first five days on the job, with the fuller statement due within one month. Share the role, salary and start date, and PIO confirms the available arrangement for that hire, then coordinates the contract, payroll, leave and notice terms around it.
Practical points to line up before you hire in Ireland.
New hires in Ireland must receive a written statement covering 11 specified terms — including pay, hours, employer details and contract duration — within their first five days, with the fuller statement due within one month.
Ending employment in Ireland involves a statutory minimum notice period that scales from one week up to eight weeks as the employee's length of service grows — that's a floor, not an add-on, so if the contract sets a longer notice period, the longer contractual period applies instead.
Full-time employees in Ireland build up at least four working weeks of paid annual leave a year, calculated by whichever of three statutory methods gives the better result, and public holidays sit on top of that. Both should be tracked consistently from day one.
Source:Annual Leave
When employment in Ireland ends, Revenue still requires the employee's full pay-period tax credits and cut-off points to be applied to that final payment, even if it covers a shorter stretch of time. We help coordinate that final payslip and the documentation around it.
Once your hire is confirmed, here's what we help you coordinate.
You stay in control of the decisions that are yours to make.
A straightforward path from sign-up to your employee's first day.
Share the role, the work location and your target start date, and we'll confirm the available arrangement for that hire.
Once confirmed, we help coordinate the information, contract and payroll setup needed within your arrangement.
You manage the day-to-day relationship; we help coordinate the recurring administration within your arrangement.
Yes — tell us the role, the salary and your intended start date, and we confirm the available arrangement for that specific hire before onboarding starts, including how the written statement of terms and payroll will be set up.
Yes — since December 2022, Irish law has required a written statement of 11 specified terms of employment, including pay and hours, within the employee's first five days, with the fuller written statement due within one month of the start date. We help make sure your offer and contract line up with both deadlines before the hire begins.
Irish law lets an employer use whichever of three methods gives the better result: one-third of a working week for each calendar month in which the employee works at least 117 hours, 8% of hours worked in the year, or four working weeks for anyone who works at least 1,365 hours — capped at four weeks either way. We track the right calculation for your hire from day one.
Source:Annual Leave
Revenue requires the employee's full tax credits and cut-off points for the pay period to be applied to the final payment, even when it covers less than a full period, with any overpayment refunded through payroll. We help coordinate that final payslip and the documentation around it as part of your arrangement.
An employee who qualifies for statutory redundancy in Ireland is entitled to two weeks' pay per year of service plus one bonus week, calculated tax-free up to a statutory weekly pay ceiling. We help you work through what a redundancy would cost and how to document it correctly.
Source:Redundancy and Insolvency: Overview of Employee Entitlements
You give us the role, compensation, any company-specific policies and your target start date. We coordinate the contract, onboarding paperwork and payroll setup around what you decide.
Practical guidance is grounded in these official references, but local law and public requirements can change and should be reconfirmed. Your PIO contract and quote govern only PIO's service scope, terms and fees.
Sign up to start an EOR hire in Ireland. Share the role, the work location and your target start date, and we'll confirm the available arrangement — or book a demo first to talk it through with our team.
