{"id":23283,"date":"2025-09-15T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23283\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:12:09","slug":"novo-nordisk-announces-international-jobs-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23283\/","title":{"rendered":"Novo Nordisk announces international jobs cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Danish drugmaker, Novo Nordisk, which has a plant in Monksland, Athlone, county Roscommon \u00a0is to lay off 9,000 staff worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Roscommon Herald is reporting that 5,000 of those redundancies are expected to come from its sites in Denmark as part of restructuring plans to save some $1.3 billion (\u00a3926 million) annually.<\/p>\n<p>The global healthcare firm, which has announced the job cuts in recent days, has around 78,400 staff worldwide and the redundancies will account for 11.5 percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy has seen its share price tumble over the past year amid increased competition in this market.<\/p>\n<p>Novo Nordisk employs about 400 at its plant in Monksland. There is no indication, as yet, that any of the county Roscommon jobs are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Roscommon County Council sold just over eleven acres of land to the company for \u20ac1.55m to accommodate its expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish drugmaker, Novo Nordisk, which has a plant in Monksland, Athlone, county Roscommon \u00a0is to lay off 9,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-23283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}