Dell concedes on severence package as workers get organised
Dell computers has caved in to demands from unhappy workers over what they believe was a poor severance package being offered by the company.
In advance of a meeting by Dell employees facing unemployment over the next 11 months, Dell computers has increased the cap on the redundancy package from 52 weeks to 104 weeks. This means that anyone working with Dell 18 years or more will be the only ones to have their redundancy package capped, whereas under the previous offer, anyone working nine years or more would have been capped.
A source tells me that the package will also include some sort of bonus for shift work, but this has to be confirmed.
The news comes as disgruntled workers at the Raheen factory gathered at the South Court hotel for a meeting to organise a collective approachto negotiate a better redundancy package.
In total, 1,900 manufacturing staff will be laid off between April of this year and January 2010 as Dell relocates it’s manufacturing base to Lodz in Poland.
UPDATE: The inclusion of shift payments in the redundancy package has been confirmed. Also, as it was asked in the last post about this meeting as to who was paying for the hotel space, hotel management offered the conference facilities free of charge to the workers.