Loss of 2,000 jobs at Eircom ‘likely to take five years’

INFORMED sources at Eircom say staff accept the need for significant redundancies at the company – but say the rumoured 2,000 job losses are likely to be spread over at least five years.

The company is in the midst of negotiations with unions representing their 7,000 staff about scaling back their operations.

According to sources, those talks are still far from completion, making reports of 2,000 job losses are “premature”.