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Dell cut over 5% in Ireland
30 April 2008 | Ireland | No Responses
Yesterday DELL (www.dell.com) announced that they will be cutting 250 Irish jobs from the plants in Dublin and Limerick. Overall the company employs 4,500 people in Ireland and this figure reflects just over 5% of their Irish staff numbers. Areas of DELL effected include sales/marketing/finance/tech support as well as other admin roles. Most of the job losses are expected to be in Dublin. Dell refused to confirm or deny further job cuts, but they did say that the other European operations will experience similar losses.
These redundancies have been announced in a period where DELL have experience double digit growth world wide, but they still need to cut costs. It is not yet clear whether DELL will reduce numbers further in Ireland, but with the current economic climate we can only speculate that it will more than likely happen. Dell has said that they will reduce their numbers by more than what the announced in May 2007. Last year we heard that the figures for losses of DELL in Ireland were to be around the 450 mark.
DELL Google Xilinx job changes
7 April 2008 | Ireland | No Responses
Here are some of the top news stories hitting the papers over the last few days:
Good news comes for Xilinx (www.xilinx.com) who say that they are increasing their customer support division in Dublin. It should result in about 20 new jobs for the site. Their Dublin site is their European headquarters and is host to 400 employees.
An estimate from the Galway City Tribune [1] says that there has been almost 500 redundancies in Galway since the start of the year. It cites that the hardest hit is the construction industry. The SFA (Small Firms Association) is quoted as saying that on average there has been 613 jobs lots per week in Ireland. This pattern of increasing unemployment is starting to look worrisome for the economy.
Last week DELL announced that they were cutting jobs in the US. In fact almost 1000 jobs were lost with the closure of a desktop PC factory in Texas. So far DELL has already cut 100 Irish jobs from their staff of 4,500. Last year DELL looked for voluntary redundancies at their plant in Limerick.
And another multinational Google, announced job cuts. This time it’s in their recently aquired advertising company DoubleClick. Again it is not likely that any Irish Jobs will be lost, in fact Google are looking to hire up to 150 staff at it’s European headquarters in Dublin right now.
Genzyme add 170 new Pharmacutical Jobs in Waterford
2 April 2008 | Ireland | 2 Responses
Last year we mentioned that Genzyme in Waterford had plans on expansion. Genzyme (www.genzyme.com) employs around 10,000 people in the United States alone. They are a Massachusetts based company, based out of Cambridge near Boston. Producing drugs since 1981 to fight rare genetic disorders, kidney disease and cancer.
It now seems that the initial 52 jobs increase, will look more like 170 jobs (over 300% more than we reported). The plant will then employ around 600 people, who are responsible for manufacturing various pharmaceutical drugs like Renagel used in chronic kidney diseases.
Pharmaceutical Jobs
So if you are looking for a pharmaceutical job in Waterford, it’s time to dust off your CV.
Ryanair Cutting Jobs in Dublin
2 April 2008 | Ireland | No Responses
Ryanair has announced that they will be cutting up to 40 jobs in their Dublin offices next month. These jobs are in the Telesales area. The Low Cost Airline reported that only 1% of their bookings were now done online and it no longer made sense to keep their most expensive call centre in Dublin open. Calls will now be redirected to their German and Romanian call centres.
Dell Job Cuts
In other job worries, DELL are planning on closing their Austin, Texas plant, with almost 1,000 job losses. This is part of the plan by DELL to reduce global numbers by up to 10%. To date there has not being a menion about about DELLs Irish operations in Limerick & Dublin, where they employ roughly about 4,000 staff.