The Irish Timeswebsite, ireland.com, is seeking to reduce its workforce by 23 to address financial difficulties in the company.
The move follows last month's announcement of a target of 250 redundancies in The Irish Timesnewspaper. The ireland.comwebsite currently employs 56 staff.
The National Union of Journalists has said it will resist the automatic shedding of staff.
Mr Michael Conway of The Irish Timeschapel said: "We view the position of ireland.comwith concern but we do not automatically accept that radical job cuts are the solution".
Management told staff today the company needed to reduce its losses by £1.8 million for 2002. The company envisages job cuts would contribute £0.5 million to this reduction.
At a presentation to staff this morning, Chief Operating Officer Ms Mary Mangan said the company needed to radically reduce its cost to the Irish Times Group.
ireland.comis a wholly owned subsidiary of The Irish Times.
Ms Mangan said a review of the company had shown a need to achieve redundancies as well as significant savings in non-payroll costs.
"However, the focus of the revised plan for ireland.comis to ensure the success of the company and maintain as many jobs as possible as we go forward," she said.
A voluntary redundancy package, expected to be in line with that to be offered to workers in the print edition, will be offered to staff early in the new year. The cost-cutting measures are expected to be implemented in the first quarter of 2002.