STAFF AT TUAM COMPANY RETURN TO FIVE DAY WEEK

Date Published: 06-May-2009

A major employer in Tuam is proving that the economic downturn can be reversed.Workers at Transitions optical, which is based in the IDA industrial estate on the Dunmore road, have returned to a five day working week. Last February, staff at the lenses manufacturing plant were told that the company had switched its production to a four day week.Workers were told that the cut in working hours was due to a global downturn in demand for its products.