400 jobs to go at pharmaceutical firm and paper plant

ALMOST 400 people were last night resigned to joining ever-increasing dole queuesas two factories laid off staff because of Ireland’s spiralling costs.

400 jobs to go at pharmaceutical firm and paper plant
Sat, 05 Sep, 2009 - 01:00
Ed Carty, Sarah Stack and Ciaran Murphy

After the worst unemployment figures for 14 years, multinational Teva Pharmaceuticals let go 315 of its 730-strong workforce in Waterford.

Meanwhile, 77 people were made redundant at paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific in Finglas, north Dublin.

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