The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
(10 - 33) Manufacturing (26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 26.1 - Manufacture of electronic components and boards
195 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 June 2025
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2025
Foreseen end date
30 September 2025
Description
Multinational chip manufacturer Intel is to make up to 195 staff redundant at its plant in Leixlip, country Kildare. Intel’s Irish plant is one of its largest and is important to the chipmaker’s global operations.
The company submitted a collective redundancy notification to the Department of Enterprise and a staff consultation process has begun, which is expected to conclude by September.
The compulsory redundancies are part of a global restructuring whereby the company stated it would be cutting up to 20% of its workforce. The global restructuring programme has been recorded in the ERM: Intel 2025 - WO
At the end of 2024, Intel employed 108,900 people worldwide and approximately 4,900 of these staff are employed at the manufacturing site in Leixlip
Eurofound (2025), Intel, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 203127, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203127.
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