Liv.I shouldnt be so honest but sometimes the truth hurts.A lot of Galway people also have a chip on their shoulders as you proved.

Your comment is full of holes. What do you know about the management, bit unfair to call them incompetent. Temp workers are not entitled to redundancy, there also seems to a genuine reason for the lay offs with it being being low season in Africa, and all the recent mining strikes may also be a factor

To say that this is a fault of the management is highly unfair. The business that OMAC is in is controlled by demand. The last year or so in Africa has seen a huge boom in exploration and mining particularly for gold. This is because the gold price was so high. As a result, exploration and mining companies went into overdrive, drilling core and sending samples to labs such as OMAC for analysis. There would have been a higher than normal demand for services that OMAC and other labs provide, particularly in the earlier part of the year, not only because of the high price but because the parts of Africa that saw an increase in activity have two very distinct seasons: Dry and Wet. We are currently in the wet season and it is very difficult to drill in these conditions. Flash flooding and insanely muddy terrain (think Oxegen times a million) are not the best conditions for operating such huge machinery.
OMAC deal with companies around the globe to try to maintain their production as best they can. It’s not their fault that there is a lower demand for their services.
It’s the same as Arnotts hiring extra staff at Christmas. They are temporary staff to deal with an increase in demand. When the demand is gone there is no work for those extra staff. And before you ask how I know so much about exploration activities in Africa it’s because I’m an exploration geologist, exploring for gold in Burkina Faso.