HEWLETT PACKARD REFUSES TO COMMENT ON POSSIBLE GALWAY JOB CUTS

Date Published: 09-Oct-2008

Hewlett Packard is not ruling out job losses at its facility in Galway, following its announcement last evening that it would be cutting its Irish workforce by 133.Last month, the computer giant announced that it would be cutting 24 thousand 600 jobs from its global workforce.There are approximately 500 employees at the Hewlett Packard plant in Ballybrit, who are mainly involved in Research and Development.The company has announced that the Irish workforce will be cut by 133 over the next two years.HP's Irish operations include facilities in Galway, Kildare and Dublin.