Unemployment
Your right to employment benefits depends on your status. if you are here on a working permit you are not eligible for enemployment benefits if you get terminated from work. If you are here on a permanent basis you should have the same rights and obligations as a faroese citizen to unemploymnt benefits. If in doubt you can contact the unemployment service or find the information on their website www.als.fo
Term of Notice
Employee termination must be based on reasonable grounds. The employer must give grounds in writing should the terminated worker demand it. Grounds for termination may be demanded if you have been with the employer for more than nine months.
Terms of notice is relative to seniority. For hourly-paid workers, the employer can give these term of notice:
Less than 6 moths seniority 5 working days
More than 6 months seniority 7 working days
More than 1 year seniority 10 working days
More than 2 year seniority 15 working days
More than 3 year seniority 20 working days
More than 5 year seniority 25 working days
If an employee who has been with the employer for more than three months hands in his resignation, he is given five day’s notice, and if that employee has been with the employer for more than six months, then the term of notice given is seven working days.
Term of Notice for Permanently Employed
Employee termination must be based on reasonable grounds. The employer must give grounds in writing should the terminated worker demand it. Grounds for termination may be demanded if you have been with the employer for more than nine months.
If the length of the employment is shorter than 6 months, then the term of notice is: 1 month to the 1st of the month
If the length of the employment is from 6 months to 2 years, then the term of notice is: 2 months to the 1st of the month
If the length of the employment is longer than 5 years, then the term of notice is: 4 months to the 1st of the month.
For workers the term of notice is one month to the 1st of the month.
The resignation must be in writing regardless of which party instigates the resignation.
