200 jobs axed at delivery firm UPS over rising costs; ECONOMY.Byline: SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. BARDON ANOTHER black day descended on the jobs front yesterday as delivery firm UPS revealed it is to shed 200 workers. The firm announced it will close its call centre operations in Tallaght, Co Dublin, over the coming months. UPS said the decision was caused by difficulties finding staff with required language skills and "increasing costs year on year of running the operation" in Ireland. It said 60 staff would be relocated re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. to other UPS operations in Dublin with the remainder being made redundant. Human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. director Nigel Goodson said the decision was regrettable but "unavoidable". The company confirmed it would offer a redundancy package "significantly in excess of statutory requirements". |
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