Plant workforce cut to 340 as drugs giant sheds 60 jobs

The giant pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp, and Dohme is to shed 60 jobs at its south Tipperary plant at Ballydine.

The redundancies, which will not be fully implemented until early next year, will reduce the existing workforce of 400 to 340.

Management is hoping all of the layoffs will be voluntary and has pledged that the redundancy package will contain “highly competitive terms”.