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Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35.11 - Production of electricity
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 August 2022
Employment effect (start)
30 August 2022
Foreseen end date
31 August 2024
Description
Solar energy company Activ8 Solar Energies is to create 200 new jobs in County Monaghan over the next two years. The company has just opened a new headquarters in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. The new roles will be in areas such as design, technical, engineering, plumbing and roofing, along with administration and back-office positions.
The company is the exclusive solar partner of SSE Airtricity and it is the largest supplier of solar PV units in Ireland.
The interest in solar energy in Ireland has been growing recently, in order to meet the 2030 European climate target for the transition to a carbon-neutral economy.
Eurofound (2022), Activ8 Solar Energies, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107278, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107278.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
