DUP and UUP leaders to meet Michel Barnier in Brussels in effort to prevent Irish Sea border
Technical discussions will resume in Brussels over Brexit this week.
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Technical discussions will resume in Brussels over Brexit this week.
The grant will help retrain 432 former call centre staff and get them back into employment.
The new jobs will be created over the next ten months at Eishtec, an Irish company set up in 2011.
The European Parliament has approved an application from Ireland for funds to retrain the call centre staff sacked last year.
Some welcome jobs news for Waterford.
Skillnets has announced a €250,000 investment for the provision of training to former TalkTalk employees in Waterford.
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund would help former Waterford Talk Talk staff to retrain and find new work.
Operations are being moved to different facilities, with the loss of 575 jobs in Waterford.
People in the industry “wanted to help in whatever way they could”, a spokesperson told TheJournal.ie.
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Employees in Waterford have told how they travelled abroad to train staff at other centres, who will now be doing their jobs.
The government says it hasn’t yet decided whether to give a university to the south-east – but that it’s speeding up a review.
Listen: Audio recorded at yesterday’s meeting at the Talk Talk facility in Waterford when management broke the news.
The IDA’s chief executive says he is “appalled” that Talk Talk is planning on closing the plant in just four weeks.
The telecoms company announces it will shut its Waterford call centre within a month, with only a handful of possible reassignments.