Dell staff to consider bringing case to LRC

DELL workers who are set to lose their jobs over the coming months have called a meeting tomorrow night to consider taking their fight for better redundancy to the Labour Relations Commission.

The company has announced that 2,000 of its 3,000 workforce in Limerick is to be let go with the transfer of manufacturing to a new plant in Lodz in Poland where the hourly rate is about e3 an hour.

Initially, Dell offered workers six weeks pay for each year of service, capped at 52 weeks, and later upped the cap to 104 weeks under protest from angry workers and public representatives.