{"id":560419,"date":"2026-07-21T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:25:08","slug":"asml-to-offer-workers-e20000-retention-bonus-for-staying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560419\/","title":{"rendered":"ASML to offer workers \u20ac20,000 retention bonus for staying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASML, the largest maker of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, intends to offer employees a bonus worth \u20ac20,000 if they remain with the company between 2027 and 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed the plan, first reported in Eindhovens Dagblad, in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>ASML said terms of the conditional stock grant from January 1, 2027 are still being finalised, but it would be offered to &#8220;all eligible employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest among big semiconductor industry firms including Samsung Electronics, TSMC and SK Hynix, to offer workers extra compensation at a time when earnings are strong but skilled labour is short.<\/p>\n<p>ASML, which is Europe&#8217;s most valuable company by stock market capitalization, this month reported net income of \u20ac2.92 billion and said its flagship line of circuitry-printing lithography tools is nearly sold out up to 2027.<\/p>\n<p>ASML employs 44,500 workers globally, with more than half in the Netherlands and around 8,500 in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASML, the largest maker of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, intends to offer employees a bonus worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-560419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560419","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=560419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}