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Intel complained to government over visa problem for staff at Kildare campus

Chipmaker said it was having issues sourcing short-term visas for staff working on its €17bn investment in Leixlip

Three multinationals accounted for one third of all corporate tax receipts from 2017-2021

Research paper from the Irish Fiscal Advisory council estimates that just three large companies paid over €5.2bn in corporate tax to the state in 2021

Intel makes fresh offer of unpaid leave to thousands of staff at Irish operation

The company has renewed an offer to manufacturing staff under which they can take up to three months of unpaid time off as part of moves to achieve ‘cost efficiency’

Hundreds of plumbers to strike at Intel and Pfizer sites despite employer’s bid for injunction

Jones Engineering had tried to get High Court action to stop industrial action, but strikes are to proceed in a dispute over travel allowance for plumbers

Intel seeks extra €5bn from German government to fund mega-plant amid soaring inflation

Multibillion-euro chip plant could have been built in Ireland but the company decided to locate it in east German city instead, partly due to our creaking energy and water infrastructure

Multibillion-euro projects including Intel’s Leixlip plant and children’s hospital to be hit by strikes

90 per cent of mechanical staff working for contracting companies Leo Lynch and Jones Engineering voted for strike action on March 10

Intel’s global CEO to visit Ireland for meeting with staff at Leixlip plant

Pat Gelsinger will host an open forum with the company’s Irish workers after months of turbulence at the chipmaker

Intel staff pay cuts and bonuses to be restored from October

Company cut shareholder dividend by almost two thirds due to declining revenues in move to save $4 billion

Industrial Relations

Mechanical workers at Intel’s €12bn Leixlip plant could strike

Plumbers working at Intel’s Fab 34 plant, as well as others carrying out work on the national children’s hospital, are among those voting in a ballot over industrial action amid a long-running dispute with contractors over travel allowances

Thousands of Intel Ireland staff hit by pay cuts and bonus freezes as chipmaker slashes costs again

Company is freezing bonuses and salaries for mid-level employees, while higher earners will have their pay cut

Intel cuts forecast for next year as revenues slump

Chipmaker has cut jobs in Ireland and around the world and predicts Q1 revenues $3bn below analysts’ expectations

Chip wars ramp up for an unsavoury battle

A US-China trade war is the latest sign of the faltering globalisation project – and semiconductor microchips are becoming weaponised, writes Jason Walsh

Irish Google employees to hear of jobs outcome within weeks

The tech giant plans to cut its global workforce by 12,000 and will carry out an assessment on its Irish operations to assess the level of job cuts here

Business Post's View

Editorial: Tech growth unlikely to come off the tracks despite layoffs

Job cuts in Google and Microsoft are a response to shareholder pressure to lower costs, rather than a crisis

Intel Ireland starts compulsory redundancies in new round of job cuts

Around 30 staff will be affected as the semiconductor giant seeks to rein in its costs

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Intel offers workers thousands of euro to take extended leave

Up to 2,000 workers at the US chip giant in Leixlip are being offered a package to take up to 12 weeks off unpaid in a bid to cut costs

Could Intel’s leave offer lead to a longer absence?

The IT giant has opted for offering staff extended time off as a cost-saving exercise, but the worry is that things won’t stop there

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