First Layoffs from Dell Take Effect

Hundreds of Dell staff will clock out for the last time today.

The first set of layoffs at the Raheen facility announced at the start of the year will take effect from this evening with 450 workers now facing the dole queues.

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The remainder of the 19 hundred workers along with 100 in the back up service area will be made redundant over the next eight months.

However many are still fighting the redundancy packages offered by the computer giant and are at the Labour Court this week to try and improve this.

Dell employee for over a decade Denis Ryan is heading up the challenge