FUTURE OF CITY HEWLETT PACKARD JOBS TO BE KNOWN SOON

Date Published: 30-Sep-2008

Employees from Hewlett Packard in Galway city will be told in the coming weeks if there are to be any job losses at the plant In a statement to Galway Bay fm news, computer giant HP says that consultations at the Galway plant will begin in October. There are approximately 500 workers at the plant in Ballybrit, who are mainly involved in research and development as well as worldwide software services and publishing.The consultations follows the company's announcement three weeks ago that they were cutting 24,600 positions worldwide.