SFA: Over 1,000 jobs lost every week last year

The Government was today urged to boost job creation in 2011 by restoring cost competitiveness to the business sector following the release of figures showing more than 60,000 redundancies last year.

“In excess of 60,000 redundancies were notified to the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment and an average of 1,075 jobs were lost in this country every week in 2010,” said Director of the Small Firms Association (SFA), Avine McNally.