The European Commission has approved a grant of €14.8m to help former workers at Dell in Limerick to find new jobs.
The European Commission President José Manuel Barroso made the announcement of the €14.8m EC grant approved to help former Dell staff made redundant in Limerick.
Re-elected last week for the new 5 year term, José Manuel Barroso brought the news good news himself in the announcement while visiting Limerick this morning.

The grant application for assistance from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was made by the Government and is one of the first to benefit from new EU crisis measures.

Mr Barroso said: ‘The economic crisis is affecting all European countries, but Limerick and the surrounding area have been hit hard by job losses at the local Dell plant and its suppliers.
‘The EU is built on solidarity. Our natural response is to come to the aid of those who are experiencing difficulties and to take decisive action to tackle the jobs impact of the crisis.’
The grant is to help 1,900 staff made redundant in Limerick earlier this year, to find new jobs.

Nationwide UK has created 20 new jobs in the IFSC -Dublin. A small announcemnt but positive all the same. The company is considered the world’s biggest building society with assets quoted of £200 billion sterling. According to reports there could be more jobs on the way as the building society is said to potentially explore expanding into other areas of banking.

There was however bad news for Cork as 130 jobs will go at Flextronics as a result of Voluntary Redundancy programme. This comes as the company restructures globally. The company announce 120 job cuts last november at its plant in Limerick. Flextronics had a heavy business relationship with Dell so they are feeling the pain from Dell closures in Ireland.

Around 230 Dell employees at the company’s Cherrywood and Limerick operations are to lose their jobs over the next six months.

While the company is not giving out exact figures for the cuts, RTÉ understands that 10% of staff are to be lost in Dublin and Limerick.

Meetings were held with 2,300 staff members at the two locations this morning to announce the move.

It is understood that 130 people will be let go at the company’s operations at Cherrywood near Loughlinstown in Dublin, with a further 100 losses at its plant in Limerick.

Dell has already let 1,900 workers go in Limerick, and 250 in Cherrywood.

Cherrywood is home to Dell’s sales operation for the Irish market and to the home and small/medium business sector of the UK market.

The EMEA Enterprise Expert Centre – which provides high-level enterprise technical support for customers across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) – is also located in Cherrywood.

Dell has announced that it will be cutting 1900 jobs in manufacturing at its plant in Limerick. This news had been anticipated for a number of months but still a shock. The job cuts will start in April and run through to next January with completion of tranfer of manufacturing to Poland. 1,100 staff will remain in employment at Limerick and 1,500 in Cherrywood Dublin. This news has ment that we have not got off to a great start in 2009 in relation to jobsnews. Waterford westwood seem to be in trouble and EMC announced that they will be cutting 7% of the global workforce. EMC has not indicated where the job cuts will happen but they employ 1,500 approx in Cork.

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Ireland got a huge jobs boost from the gaming sector this week when GOA, mobile operator Orange’s online games unit, announced it was setting up an operations and customer support centre in Dublin. The company will locate at the Digital Hub and it will create 400 jobs.

GOA specialises in (MMORPG) – massively multiplayer online role playing games. These are online computer role-playing games (RPG) in which many players interact in a virtual world. World of Warcraft is one of the best know games and it has over 11 million monthly subscribers.

Other Job News in Ireland.

This other news is not so good and focuses on the Electronic Sector.

Motorola has announced 3,000 job cuts globally.

In Limerick there were job cuts at Dell with 400 temp staff loosing their jobs. This has raised general fears from the 3,000 permanent staff at the company.

Also in Limerick there are fears for 100 jobs at Flextronics. The company supports firms like Dell with Warehousing solutions and employs 290 staff in Limerick.

Finally

Banking and Finance was served a jobs blow with the announcement that CITCO will cuts jobs in the IFSC. Only a few months back it was reported off expansions for the company in Cork. This may now be put on the back burner.

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It looks like I spoke too soon yesterday with my previous post. I guess I tempted fate.

Dell Ireland announced that it will be cutting 250 jobs for its 4500 workforce in Ireland. Operations in Cherrywood in Dublin will be hardest hit as most jobs to go are in support functions – Marketing, IT and Administration. Dell insists that no Manufacturing jobs will be lost but there are expected to be some job losses in Limerick Operations.

Dell has been established in Ireland for a good few years and is deemed a high profile employer in Ireland which magnifies this news. The company cited slow computer sales as the driver for global cost cutting when it announced the bad news to staff on Tuesday.

I find it interesting that manufacturing has not been affected as most job loss in Ireland seems to be manufacturing. I remember a number of years back there were strong rumours of Dell relocating operations to Mexico (I think!!)

Ryanair announced that it will be cutting 40 jobs in Dublin in May. 40 telesales jobs will go at their Dublin call centre. Is this a result of rising oil prices or is it because everyone is booking online?

Thermo King has announced the creation of 19 new jobs in Galway. Thermo King currently employs 600 staff in the region and design and manufacture transportation refrigeration.

Dell has announced the closure of a plant in Austin with the loss of 900 jobs. Ok this is not Irish news but this is part of a 10% cut in global workforce for Dell. They employ about 4,000 staff in Ireland in Dublin & Limerick.

There are fears for 80 jobs in Shannon with Unbrako Europe SPS International following the sale to a US firm. This is worrying news as the company has been in Shannon since 1960.

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