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09/07/2009
FG Wilson Suspends Redundancy Plans
Local engineering company FG Wilson will retain a full working week for its employees, following an order boost.
The firm said productions levels have remained high enough to stave off a programme of selective lay-offs.
A spokesman for the Caterpillar Corp-owned firm said: "FG Wilson is continually working to have appropriate employment levels in order to meet production requirements. As a result, we are able to take a number of steps in the short-term, including suspending the programme of selective layoffs introduced at the beginning of June across our Larne, Springvale and Monkstown facilities, effective July 9.
"We are also suspending the reduced working week for operational employees at our Northern Ireland facilities, effective July 20.
"In addition, a limited number of temporary agency workers with specific skills and experience are being taken on," FG Wilson said in a statement.
The firm pledged to keep employee informed of future developments.
Under the lay-off plans, around half of all employees could have been reduced to a three-day working week.
The move was designed to limit compulsory redundancies.
Since December FG Wilson has made more than 600 full-time and agency workers redundant.
The generator manufacturer blamed a marked decline in orders for the cut-backs.
(PR/BMcC)
The firm said productions levels have remained high enough to stave off a programme of selective lay-offs.
A spokesman for the Caterpillar Corp-owned firm said: "FG Wilson is continually working to have appropriate employment levels in order to meet production requirements. As a result, we are able to take a number of steps in the short-term, including suspending the programme of selective layoffs introduced at the beginning of June across our Larne, Springvale and Monkstown facilities, effective July 9.
"We are also suspending the reduced working week for operational employees at our Northern Ireland facilities, effective July 20.
"In addition, a limited number of temporary agency workers with specific skills and experience are being taken on," FG Wilson said in a statement.
The firm pledged to keep employee informed of future developments.
Under the lay-off plans, around half of all employees could have been reduced to a three-day working week.
The move was designed to limit compulsory redundancies.
Since December FG Wilson has made more than 600 full-time and agency workers redundant.
The generator manufacturer blamed a marked decline in orders for the cut-backs.
(PR/BMcC)
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