Siemens agrees to redundancy talks

IT giant Siemens has agreed to meet a group of workers at one of its Cork facilities to discuss redundancy payments after losing a contract with an English firm.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) agreed to the talks after the workers, based at its Blackrock facility, went public on their situation.

The group — 18 full-time and three short-term contract workers — were facing the prospect of having to move to England to keep their jobs after SIS lost a customer support services contract with Yell.