Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed his concern about the employees of Twitter in Ireland and the manner in which they were notified of job losses at its Dublin office.
Twitter began laying off members of its Irish workforce earlier today with some staff in the Dublin office receiving emails this morning telling them that they were being made redundant.
"It's not the way to conduct industrial relations or organised relationships between employer and employee.Earlier Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath expressed his disappointment at the handling of the job losses. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
"It is an important relationship. But the manner of today's developments is deeply disappointing. It is important that people are treated with respect at all times, irrespective of how difficult the circumstances may be." Speaking in Singapore where he is on trade mission, Mr Varadkar said that tech companies expanded very quickly - probably a little too quickly - in the past year or two and as a result of that they now have to lay off some staff.
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