Yesterday according to an Irish Independent report , Intel (www.intel.com) is set to cut 200 jobs, or about 4 percent of the staff, at its Leixlip wafer fabs. Intel employs about 5,000 people at a series of wafer fabs in Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The jobs are mainly involved in flash memory production and will go by the end of the year under a voluntary redundancy program, the report said.
They have been asking workers to step forward and take redundancy by a package of measures that includes six weeks’ pay for each year of service plus statutory benefits.