Laid-off TalkTalk workers to get €2.7m EU funds

Laid-off TalkTalk employees were voted €2.7m from the EU to help with retraining, education and self-employment supports by the European Parliament.

The total funding available for the 432 of the 575 former staff of the Waterford-based call centre that closed unexpectedly last year will be €5.4m when state funding is added.

The money, from the EU’s globalisation fund designed to help unemployed to find alternative jobs, got the overwhelming support of 561 MEPs, with just 72 voting against.