Workers at Element Six in Shannon have served notice of strike action over work practices and shift patterns at the facility.

The main challenge industrial diamonds manufacturer Element Six faced last year was keeping up with customer demand.

RecruitIreland.com’s statistics from January 1 to November 31, 2014, make for upbeat and optimistic jobs news.

Potential changes to Northern Ireland’s corporate tax regime will not damage a government-backed initiative to bring jobs into the Republic, the head of Connect Ireland has said.

Industrial diamond manufacturer Element Six last year went into the red to record a pre-tax loss of $2.5m (€1.9m).

Some members of the wound up pension scheme of a company in the De Beers diamond manufacturing group have been left with no money and in great personal and financial distress, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

THE main Irish arm of industrial diamond manufacturer Element Six stormed back to profit last year, a year after its Shannon plant was threatened by closure.

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WORKERS at a Shannon company which let go more than 200 staff late last year, and only narrowly avoided closing its production facility completely, have been rewarded with an unexpected cash windfall.

One hundred and sixty-three jobs are to be saved at industrial diamond manufacturer Element Six in Shannon after staff accepted Labour Court recommendations.

The industrial diamond manufacturer Element Six says it will accept Labour Court proposals recommending an improved redundancy deal for employees being laid off by the company.

The Labour Court has issued a series of recommendations in a bid to resolve the row between workers and management at Element Six in Co Clare.

Management and unions from the Element Six plant in Co Clare are due to resume talks at the Labour Court today on a redundancy package for around 200 workers.

Discussions on a rescue plan for the troubled Shannon-based company Element Six have resumed this morning.

The LRC has referred the dispute at the Element Six plant in Shannon to the Labour Court.

Talks aimed at resolving the dispute over redundancies at Element Six are due to resume today.

Talks aimed at resolving the redundancy dispute at Element Six in Co Clare are due to resume under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission today.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday moved to qualify comments he made on the Element Six stand-off after being challenged by workers at the under-threat Shannon plant.

UNIONS at troubled diamond firm Element Six last night rejected a charge by management that workers are engaging in ‘blue flu’ style unofficial action.

Workers at Element Six in Co Clare have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.

No agreement has been reached between unions and management at Element Six in Co. Clare following talks today to discuss the redundancy package on offer to staff.

Workers at the under-threat industrial diamond firm Element Six are to vote on whether to strike as management attempt to secure a rescue package, it was revealed tonight.

Workers at the Element Six plant in Co Clare are meeting their union representatives today to discuss the redundancy terms being offered by the company.

WORKERS at Element Six stormed out of a meeting with management yesterday and later downed tools, after claims that a new redundancy package offer is worse than the previous package.

A plan that could save 160 jobs at international diamond giant Element Six was tonight criticised by unions.

Two hundred and forty jobs are to be saved at the Element Six plant in Co Clare as part of a rescue plan for the facility.

The fate of a rescue plan that could save jobs at the Element Six plant in Co Clare is expected to be known today.

Senior executives from Element Six in Co. Clare will continue talks in London today on a possible rescue plan for the company.

There are renewed hopes today that a large number of the 370 redundancies announced at the Element Six plant in Shannon last week could be reversed.

THIS country’s lack of competitiveness was yesterday blamed for another huge jobs loss when international diamond giant Element Six (E6) announced the lay off of 370 workers at Shannon, claiming its Irish operation was the most expensive in the world.

THE 370 jobs lost at Element 6 are to follow an overseas route just as the 2,000 wiped out at Dell.

WORKERS at Element Six said they were particularly “gutted” by the redundancy package being offered by the company.

SIPTU says it is unhappy with the redundancy terms being offered to 370 workers who are set to lose their jobs at the Element Six facility in the Shannon Industrial Estate.

The diamond manufacturer Element Six has announced plans to lay off 370 workers at its facility in the Shannon Industrial Estate.

ALMOST 300 job losses were announced in the home improvement and drug manufacturing industries yesterday.

Ninety voluntary redundancies could be on the cards at Element Six in Shannon.

PRIVATE sector job numbers plunged further yesterday with 150 immediate redundancies announced at one of the first multinationals to set up in this country.

Some 300 jobs were lost today as two companies cut their workforce.

A company that manufactures industrial diamonds has announced plans to lay off 150 workers in Co Clare.

POLITICAL leaders from the mid-west yesterday vowed to maintain pressure on the Government over the Aer Lingus decision to switch Heathrow services from Shannon to Belfast.

The Government tonight pledged to do everything in its power to restore alternative Heathrow Airport services to the Mid-West region.

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