Letter · €9 or €19 with follow-up · Ireland

Final pay claim letter

Your written claim for the amounts missing from your final pay: unpaid wages, minimum notice, annual leave not taken and public holiday pay, each with its calculation, and a reminder of your 6-month WRC time limit.

This site does not give legal advice. You prepare your letter from your own answers: it sets out facts and calculated amounts, with no opinion on your situation.

Your employment

How your employment ended

This tool calculates your annual leave, public holidays and time limits for this situation. Other amounts follow rules it does not cover.

Your start date with this employer

Your last day of employment

The day your employment actually ended, even if you were paid in lieu of notice.

Notice

Date your employer gave notice (optional)

The date on the letter or email, if it is earlier than the day you received it.

Date you received notice (optional)

Leave it empty if your employment ended without notice.

How your notice went

Notice your employer must give under your contract (optional)

Leave it empty if your contract says nothing or you do not know.

Unit

For statutory redundancy

I received my redundancy notice in writing

Did you leave before the end of your redundancy notice?

Does your job still exist, done by someone else?

Your PRSI class

On your payslip. Most employees are Class A.

I was under 16 on my first day with this employer

Your date of birth

Used only to count your service from your 16th birthday. Never printed.

Absences in the last 3 years (lay-off, strike, long illness)

Only these absences reduce your service. Maternity, paternity, parental or carer’s leave and other authorised absences count as service: no need to enter them.

Absence 1

From

Absence 2

From

Absence 3

From

Your pay

Does your pay change from week to week (hours or commission)?NoYes

How often you are paid

Your gross pay for that period

Before tax, for your normal hours, with regular bonuses, without overtime.

Your gross pay for the last 13 weeks

Without overtime.

Your gross pay for the last 52 weeks worked

Without overtime. Used for redundancy.

Number of weeks

I worked regular overtimeRegular overtime counts for redundancy.

Overtime pay in the 26 weeks before the last 13 weeks

I was on short time or lay-off in the last year

Your working time

Your usual hours per week

Days you work each week

Are your hours the same every week?YesNo

Hours worked since 1 April (leave year), leave taken included

Months in which you worked 117 hours or more

Hours worked in the 5 weeks before the public holiday after your last day

Hours not worked since 1 April (unpaid absence, lay-off) (optional)

Sick days with a medical certificate count as worked: do not enter them.

Annual leave

Days of annual leave taken since 1 April

The Irish leave year starts on 1 April. 0 if none.

Days carried over from the previous leave year (optional)

This carry-over was agreed with me

Days of leave not taken because of illness (earlier years) (optional)

Leave you could not take because you were sick can be carried over for up to 15 months.

Days your contract gives you for this period, if more (optional)

This tool does not calculate contract entitlements: enter yours if it is higher.

Public holidays

Did you work during the 4 weeks before you left?YesNo, I had a long absence

Earlier public holidays this year that were neither paid nor given as a day off (optional)

Date of the earliest of these public holidays (optional)

Needed if you entered a number above: the WRC time limit may run from that day.

What you received

Copy the gross amounts from your final payslip. Leave a line empty if nothing was paid for it.

Have you received your final payslip?YesNot yet

Pay in lieu of notice (optional)

Holiday pay (annual leave not taken) (optional)

Public holiday pay at the end (optional)

Redundancy payment (optional)

Statutory or more.

Date the redundancy payment was made (optional)

Wages not paid, or paid in part (optional)

The tool does not calculate your normal wages: enter what was due and what you were paid, for each pay period.

Period 1

For example: week ending 23 October 2026

Gross due

Gross paid

Due on

Period 2

Gross due

Gross paid

Due on

Period 3

Gross due

Gross paid

Due on

Amounts in the letter

The amounts missing from what you received. Untick an amount to leave it out of the letter.

No missing amount yet: fill in your employment, your pay and what you received.

Date of your final payslip (optional)

You

First name(s)

Surname

Address (first line)

Address (second line) (optional)

Town or city

Eircode (optional)

Email address (optional)

Show my email address in the letter

PPS number (optional)

7 digits and 1 or 2 letters, on your payslip or P60.

Your job title

As on your payslip or contract.

Your employer

Your employer’s full legal name

As on your payslip, P60 or contract (the WRC also asks for the full legal name).

Trading name, if different (optional)

Name of the person to write to (optional)

For example the HR manager.

Their role (optional)

Address (first line)

Address (second line) (optional)

Town or city

Eircode (optional)

Your employer’s email address (optional)

Needed to send a copy by email.

Date and sending

Date of the letter

Today by default.

How you will send it

Email needs your employer’s email address.

Registered Post (An Post)By handRegistered Post and email

Days your employer has to reply or pay

14 days by default, as form RP77 suggests; 7 at least.

How you want to be paid (optional)

For example: to the bank account into which my wages were paid. No IBAN needed in the letter.

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This site does not give legal advice. You write the letter from your own answers; it sets out facts and calculated amounts, with no opinion on your situation. For advice, ask Citizens Information, a trade union or a solicitor.

Claiming your final pay in writing

Notice pay, holiday pay and unpaid wages are “wages” under the Payment of Wages Act 1991. The letter sets out each amount with its calculation: minimum notice (Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, s. 4), annual leave not taken (Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, s. 23(1)) and the public holiday at the end of employment (s. 23(2)). Statutory redundancy has its own letter: the redundancy claim letter.

Writing to your employer does not stop the 6-month time limit to complain to the WRC (Workplace Relations Act 2015, s. 41(6)). The final pay check compares each amount with your payslip for free.

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