Call for emergency action plan to save jobs

THE Government has been urged to introduce an emergency action plan on jobs after new figures revealed 360 people have lost their job every working day since the start of the year.

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has revealed that Irish companies laid off 7,232 workers in April alone – a 132% rise over the same month last year.

The number of redundancies from January to April this year totalled 27,983 – a 154% increase on the corresponding period in 2008.