Senator’s call for Bausch + Lomb jobs to be moved to New York sparks fury

A US senator has been criticised for encouraging the CEO of Bausch + Lomb’s parent company to move the 1,100-plus Waterford-based jobs to New York.

Democratic senator Charles E Schumer said when he heard news of the looming job cuts at Bausch + Lomb in Waterford, he “called the CEO of Valeant and urged him to move that work and those jobs to Rochester”.

Fine Gael Waterford TD John Deasy has since made a complaint to the Irish embassy in Washington about the comments.