Taoiseach calls on profitable firms laying off staff to offer fair redundancy terms
Mr Varadkar was speaking after professional services firm Accenture said it would cut 890 staff in Ireland this week. HR software giant Salesforce said on Wednesday it would lay off another 50 staff in this country.
“Workers who get laid off are entitled to redundancy payments from their employer. What I am saying to companies that are downsizing, that are still profitable, that the basic redundancy of two weeks per year of service isn’t enough. Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney accompanied Mr Varadkar on the visit. He noted “those people” laid off by tech firms this year “have found employment very quickly elsewhere. Because they are highly skilled people.”
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