14,600 industrial job losses during year

A TOTAL of 14,600 industrial jobs have been lost in the nine months to September taking a massive €408m in wages out of the economy in a full year.

The cull of jobs has resulted in the remaining 241,500 industrial workers employed in the state to increase their workload to over 40 hours a week.

Average industrial earnings are up 5.7% this year but workers are putting in more hours as there are fewer people employed in Irish industry almost 30,000 industrial jobs have been lost in the last two years.