Kerry Group to implement redundancies at Carrickmacross facility

31 workers in Kerry Group’s Carrickmacross factory are facing redundancy as the company comes to terms with the impending fallout of Brexit.

Kerry Group Plc have pointed to the plummeting sterling exchange rates as the reason for the job losses.

Kerry Group announced the move back in January following a review of the Monaghan factory last year.

In a statement they said the review was to optimise efficiency and ensure sustainability and viability at the plant in the face of significant drops in sterling following the Brexit vote.

Staff were informed that the operational redundancies were being sought across a number of areas.

Deputy Niamh Smyth raised the matter in the Dáil calling on the Taoiseach to ensure that the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, intervenes in the situation at Kerry Foods in Carrickmacross:

The Carrickmacross factory will still employ 385 workers. Kerry Group have said that no other plants are under threat, adding that Carrickmacross is “uniquely vulnerable” as it produces frozen prepared meals sold directly to the UK.