About 600 staff at Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) on the Fermanagh/Cavan border have been furloughed or laid off temporarily as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Employees at Quinn Packaging – which supplies packaging to the food sector and is therefore deemed an essential business – and a small number of employees who are able to work from home are unaffected. QIH, which manufactures building products and consumer packaging, employs about 830 people in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, and Derrylin, Co Fermanagh. Temporary layoffsAs a result, the spokesman said, about 600 staff would be “furloughed or placed on temporary layoff and paid in accordance with the relevant Government support scheme applicable to their roles”. The business was founded many years ago by Northern Ireland businessman Seán Quinn, who went bankrupt following the financial crash of a decade ago.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2020 19:40 UTC