Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993

Persons affected by trade disputes.

[1981, s. 203(1)]

174.—(1) In any case where, by reason of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his place of employment, a person is without employment for any period during which the stoppage continues, and such person has not, during that stoppage, become bona fide employed elsewhere in the occupation which he usually follows, or has not become regularly engaged in some other occupation, his needs for that period shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining his entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance except in so far as such needs include the need to provide for his adult or child dependants.

[1987 (No. 2), s. 13(3)]

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person who is not participating in or directly interested in the trade dispute which caused the stoppage of work.

[1981, s. 203(3)]

(3) In this section, “place of employment” in relation to any person, means the factory, workshop, farm or other premises or place at which he was employed, but, where separate branches of work which are commonly carried on as separate businesses in separate premises or at separate places are in any case carried on in separate departments on the same premises or at the same place, each of those departments shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a separate factory or workshop or farm or separate premises or a separate place, as the case may be.