Tánaiste: We won’t talk to Dell about job cuts

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan said the Government does not intend to talk with Dell management about a revised redundancy package for the 1,900 staff who lost their jobs last week.

Workers are angry with the offer of six weeks’ wages for every year of service along with a four-week severance payment. The payoff has a 52-week cap and does not take on board shift and bonus payments.

Speaking in Limerick where she met a group of Dell workers, Ms Coughlan said: “This [redundancy] is now a matter of consultation over a 30-day period and this is a statutory period. The workers have indicated to me that their preferred option is to work within that process and they have legal entitlements if they are not happy with that.”