UK, Ireland / Does Irish government pay Polish workers to return to Poland? [18]

Some polish friends of mine have been offered redundacy offers from their current jobs, they are considering the offers but want to maximise their options, this story has been doing the rounds about payments to polish workers from the Irish Government, i have said i cant believe this to be true as would be contrary to EU law but have no definitive proof of such

UK, Ireland / Does Irish government pay Polish workers to return to Poland? [18]

They qualify for a statutory redundancy payment from the government , with the company offering a similar package, the offer has been made to up to 20 workers, across a broad spectrum of ages and genders,yes some of the recent employees are on contract and their contracts are not due for renewal with unfortunately no severance payment of any sort. The only reason the question was asked as there are so many irrelevant and unnecessary rumours spreading around the workforce as the ecomony falls further and further into decline, in times of hardship it seems harder to disseminate truth from fiction, i believe myself to be in the next round of possible layoffs and a discussion is always a relevant and worthwhile forum for disspelling many of these myths.