If your spouse continues to run the business in which you are employed, it is possible that the employment authority will consider you to be employed in the business as well. You can ask about the conditions of employment policy by calling the Unemployment Benefit Advisory Service of the Employment Line on 0295 020 701. In some situations, your spouse may cease to be employed. These situations include, for example, the cessation of a production activity or the outsourcing of work. The Fund does not make decisions on labour market conditions.
You may be considered unemployed by the employment services in at least the following cases:
- You have been made redundant full-time and a non-family member has also been made redundant during the year
- Your spouse also quits the business
- You prove that your business activity is part-time, for example by working full-time in a paid job at the same time for the period of the employee’s employment condition (26 weeks).
- Your work in the company ends, for example, when a production line ends