ONE of Cork’s largest employers, with 750 staff from 35 countries, has proven that large-scale operations can still have the best human resources environment.

Organisations still have a long way to go to eliminate age discrimination at work and become fully compliant with the recent UK legislation, according to the latest findings from the Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI), produced by Cranfield School of Management.

CORK was dealt another major jobs blow yesterday when a large call centre announced it is shutting down within weeks with the loss of 84 jobs.

A TOTAL of 250 jobs are to be created by two companies, one of which started manufacturing in a cow shed three years ago.

Skills and labour shortages are causing employers to invest more money on in-house training, researchers said today.

A call centre in Cork has announced plans to lay off 119 night-shift workers in the coming months.