Older workers likely to opt for package

KOSTAL expects that up to 50 of the 200 workers who are to lose their jobs at their car component manufacturers plant in Abbeyfeale will opt for voluntary redundancy.

Half the 100 jobs will be lost on the manufacturing lines and another 100 will go in administrative and services areas.

Workers are expecting a superior redundancy package to the one offered by Dell to the 1,900 workers they are letting go in Raheen.