There seems to be nothing but bad jobs news, financial news or budget news at the minute so I always like to post something positive. The Mid West region has had its fair share of negative jobs news so I am delighted to tell you that there have been 200 new jobs announced.

Microsemi will increase its workforce by 185 over the next 2 years. The firm produces equipment for the US space exploration programme. Although there has been no official announcement there are positive signals of intent coming from the firm. This news makes more of an impact in the fact that only last May Microsemi reversed a decision to phase out its operations in Ennis which employed 108 people at that time. Also in Clare Async Technologies announced that it would be creating 11 highly-skilled jobs. Finally in Limerick Avvio is set to create 30 new jobs over the next two years.

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Aer Arann is to cut its workforce by up to 25 per cent as it looks to reduce costs by seeking up to 100 redundancies.
The firm says that the cost-reduction programme is “being implemented to ensure the airline’s long-term future”, and it will lead to an increasing concentration on the charter and “wet lease” programme it introduced during the summer, whereby Aer Arann provides aircraft, crews and maintenance to other airlines.
Although the firm’s key routes will be unaffected by the development, it will lead to a reduction in the airline’s marginal scheduled services.
The airline currently employs more than 400 people and the programme will “likely” lead to a reduction in staff numbers of up to 100 people.
However, the firm said that redundancies for flight crew and engineers “may reduce, depending on the progressive introduction of new charter and wet lease business”.

Pharmaceuticals company Wyeth Medica Ireland announced it will be reducing its workforce by 100 in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

The pharmaceutical company, which employs more than 3,000 people at five different locations, is to cut jobs at its Newbridge facility from 1,300 to 1,050 by the end of 2009. Some 150 of these redundancies were expected as part of a plan announced in 2006. A further 50 or so temporary staff are expected not to have their contracts renewed. Siptu last night criticised Wyeth Medica Ireland (WMI) over its decision to cut the jobs of some 150 permanent and temporary staff members.

Waterford Crystal is to seek a further 280 redundancies from its plant at Kilbarry, just outside of the Waterford city. The job losses at Waterford Crystal will be the second batch at the company in the past year. The company attributed the redundancies to a “continuing decline” in product volumes and a need to “implement greater cost efficiencies”. Some 200 out of 492 redundancies still remain to be made from those announced at the Kilbarry plant last November as part of a company restructuring plan. The continuation of the firm’s manufacturing in Waterford, which employed some 3,000 during its peak in the 1980s, seems uncertain following events over the last 12 months.

Hewlett Packard has confirmed that it and its newly acquired subsidiary EDS are to shed 133 jobs in Ireland over the next two years.

Hewlett Packard currently employs 4,000 people at its facility in Leixlip in Co Kildare and EDS employs 400 in Treasury buildings in Dublin city centre.

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eBay announced that it will cut 10% of its global workforce which equates to 1,000 jobs globally. This news has come as a major blow to the company but fortunately this jobs news will have little impact on eBay jobs in Ireland. It is believed that workers were informed in Dublin by email and then further information was relayed by management. This news is another blow to the global jobs market. But it is not all bad news as we highlighted Facebook will open offices in Dublin creating 70 new jobe

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Facebook is the prime example. The good news is that the Dublin Office (the European HQ) is opening and some 20ish jobs are already published on the Facebook web site.

WOW – not surprising but still a shock all the same

Latest figures indicate that Irish unemployment rose in the moth of September to the highest in 11 years as the property crash and world credit crisis slows growth and recruitment. Unemployed recorded at 244,500 which is the highest figure since 1997. Unemployment figures have increased by 79,565 in the last year which is the biggest yearly increase since 1967.

Another report indicated that Ballina, Tralee and Dundalk were the worst unemployment spots in the country. The rate of unemployment in Ballina was 15.8%, 14.2% in Tralee and 13.9% in Dundalk. At the positive end of things were Malahide and Leixlip at just 4%.