Seagate staff to receive up to €29,000 each

THE 900 computer workers in the North who are to lose their jobs at Limavady-based Seagate have been told they will receive a favourable redundancy package as much as £20,000 (€29,000) each — but only if they stay until it closes down.

The workers at the Derry company have each been offered six weeks’ pay for every year they have worked at the plant, but only if they stay until July.

If they leave their jobs before then, they will get four weeks’ pay for every year they have been employed at the factory.