An entrepreneur cannot lay off himself or herself due to lack of work, but it is possible to lay off a family member. A member of the entrepreneur’s family can be laid off only if the lay-off is full-time employment and the enterprise has laid off or dismissed for economic or production reasons at least one employee who is not a member of the entrepreneur’s family during the one-year reference period.
A full-time lay-off is one that lasts for at least a full calendar week (Monday to Sunday) in one period. For a family member to be laid off, the family member must have owned less than 15% of the company in the last two years and must not otherwise have had a similar level of control over the company. You can read more about this under Family member of a self-employed person.
For information on the conditions of the labour market policy, please contact the Unemployment Security Advisory Service of the Employment Line on 0295 020 701.