High-skills fears as 500 jobs lost in 24 hours
The most significant of the three major announcements was in Waterford, where the Sanofi-Aventis plant is to shut down later this year, after almost four decades of employment in the city.
The 200 staff were told yesterday morning that the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical firm is moving the manufacture of creams and ointments from the plant, most likely to its facilities in France or Germany, which have spare production capacity.