A German company has announced plans to cut the workforce at its plant in the Mayo Gaeltacht by about a quarter.
Caideil MP Teoranta, which makes appliances for the cosmetics industry, is seeking 15 redundancies at its factory in Tourmakeady.
The firm employs 56 workers, six of whom are part-timers.
Plant manager Bernd Sproll has blamed poor sales, a competitive world market and the loss of a contract with a US company for the layoffs.
Mayo TD Beverley Flynn has called on Údarás na Gaeltachta to make a special effort to replace the lost jobs and safeguard the remaining ones.
