He said the meeting followed a series of direct contacts by the Department of Enterprise and the agencies with the companies involved.
We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences However, affected staff have been told no decisions will be made on redundancies until the end of that time and in the interim they will continue to receive all pay and contractual benefits.
Companies are also required to carry out a 30-day consultation with employees and their representatives where collective redundancies are being proposed. However, Micheál Martin said that there should not be panic about the recent job losses in Twitter and potential losses elsewhere. "A company who is engaging in collective redundancies has to consult with employees and inform employees, and also has to notify the minister 30 days before the first dismissal, so it is perfectly in order for an employer to commence the consultation and information process before notifying the minister and that may be well what we're seeing here now," Cathy Maguire said.
"The fact that the prosecution may be maintained not only against the company but against the officers does assist in that regard, and perhaps this is something that needs to be revisited by the legislature having regard to the scale of the companies now operating in Ireland," she stated."If they're selected for redundancy, they may assert that they have been unfairly dismissed and the maximum award is two years' compensation for any losses accrued," she explained.
He said that very strong relationships exist in the indigenous tech sector, so he couldn't say that there won't be any impact of recent moves by Twitter and Meta, but according to the latest survey by Scale Ireland, the biggest single problem for the sector was recruitment of good quality staff.
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The great exodus is upon us…
Irish red tape should persuade tech companies to leave.
Should maybe do a bit of research and find tech companies just had the covid lock down boom and are now going into cut backs and less profits modes.