BUSINESS
Dell seeks up to 100 redundancies
12-07-2007
by Emmet Ryan
Dell has no back up plan if it fails to get the 80 to 100 voluntary redundancies it is seeking from its plant in Limerick.
The cuts were announced on Thursday and are part of the PC giant's plan to shed 10 percent of its workforce worldwide, which ENN reported in June.
A spokesperson for the firm told ENN that Dell had "no plan B" in place. "Dell is fully confident it will be able to get the redundancies voluntarily," said the spokesperson.
The redundancy process will be launched in two weeks' time and will continue for a number of months. The spokesperson said the exact timeframe was still up in the air and Dell will reconsider the situation should it fail to make the targeted number of cuts by the end of the process.
The Limerick plant currently employs 3,000 staff and the spokesperson said those working in the firm's IT, human resources, and marketing departments, along with managers and other staff of its manufacturing business, would be eligible to take voluntary redundancy.
The redundancy programme will not apply to Dell's other plant in Cherrywood in Dublin, where 1,500 are employed. Despite the cuts Dell said both of its Irish facilities are continuing to recruit new staff in some areas.
The decision to cut staff at the facility was criticised by Jan O'Sullivan, Labour's TD for Limerick East.
"The disclosure that Dell is looking for 100 voluntary redundancies in its Limerick plant is worrying news for the city and the surrounding area. These positions at Dell are good jobs in a plant that has been a valuable source of employment for people in the Mid-West region," said O'Sullivan.
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