Another 330 jobs are to be axed at an international telecommunications company, it was announced today.
It is the fourth time this yearNortel has cut jobs at the factory in Monkstown in Co Antrim.
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The reduction is part of 10,000 jobs being shed by the Canadian-based company globally between June and September and on top of 20,000 job losses announced earlier in the year. Together the cuts will see the company reduce employment by almost a third from 94,000.
Nortel said the continuing worldwide downturn in the demand for communications equipment means it has no option but to make the further cuts.
Today's announcement means the workforce in the Monkstown plant will have been cut from 2,400 at the beginning of the year to 1,600 by September.
The systems house area of operations will be hit by the latest cuts, a spokesman for Nortel at Monkstown saod.
He said the firm was entering a consultation process with representatives of the workforce and would "attempt to keep redundancies to a minimum".
PA