Workers at Dell in Limerick, who are due to lose their jobs this year, have met to form a committee to negotiate for a better redundancy deal.
It comes just four weeks to the day after Dell announced it is cutting its Limerick workforce by 1,900.
Many workers are concerned that the six weeks redundancy pay was being capped at 52 weeks, which the group feels would penalise workers who had been there over eight years.
Shift allowances were also excluded from consideration in severance pay.
Denis Ryan, who has been with the company over ten years and who organised the meeting, said many workers felt lost and had no voice, as the company managers were negotiating with workers on a one-to-one basis.
As over 100 workers gathered to discuss their futures this evening, it emerged that Dell had made a number of improvements to the redundancy deal.
It has revised the 52-week cap to 104 weeks and given workers a number of options regarding shift pay and health and life insurance benefits.
Worker Eamon Ryan told workers this represented a major climbdown by Dell management.
A spokesperson for Dell said they would not be making any comment on specific changes to the redundancy package for workers.
However, the spokesperson added that Dell managers and human resources personnel had maintained a channel of communication for all workers during the past four-week consultation process.
