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Sat 07 Jul 2010Redundancy figures rise again in June
THE NUMBER of redundancies rose again in June after falling back slightly the previous month. According to official figures supplied by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, the number of people losing their jobs rose to 5,339 in June from 5,026 in May. This brings to 33,876 the total number of redundancies recorded this year to date.
The figure is 20 per cent below the number of jobs lost in the first half of last year, a gap that has been widening as the year progresses.
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