300 jobs per working day lost this year

MORE than 13,000 redundancies, or 300 per working day, have been reported to the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment since the start of the year, new figures show.

That is equivalent to the number reported in the first five months of 2008.

According to the figures from the department, there were 6,337 redundancies confirmed in February of this year. In the equivalent month in 2008, the figure was 2,838.

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