It is been announced that 160 jobs have been lost at the Schering Plough pharmaceutical plant in west Cork.
Staff at the plant, which employs 519 people at Brinny in Innishannon, were informed of the layoffs at lunchtime today. Schering Plough says it hopes the redundancies will be voluntary.
The announcement has been described as “a massive blow to the workers and to the local economy” by local Senator Michael McCarthy.
He added: “As a former worker in the plant myself, my thoughts today are with my former colleagues and their families who now face a period of such uncertainty. This area has lost many jobs in recent years in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors, and these job losses are the last thing that local communities need. Losses of this scale in this sector would indicate that the government strategy of developing and supporting employment is now in disarray.”
No comments:
Post a Comment