PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT PFIZER is to seek up to 80 voluntary redundancies at its manufacturing plant at Grange Castle, near Clondalkin, in Dublin.
The plant – a former Wyeth facility – is to seek between 60 and 80 layoffs as part of a rebuilding project that will see some development laboratories replaced in the coming years.
Private maintenance operators at the plant have already had to lay off some staff ahead of the closure of the laboratories, which are expected to be rebuilt over the next 24 months or so.
Operators said, however, that the overall numbers employed at the plant would remain broadly unchanged, with growth in other areas of the facility at the same time.
Around 1,200 are employed directly by Pfizer at the Grange Castle facility, where several hundred staff are also employed by outside contractors. The plant was taken over by Pfizer following the firm’s $68bn takeover of Wyeth in early 2009.
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