Bausch & Lomb the eye-care company is to lay-off 110 temporary staff at its Waterford plant.
The company said it hopes to re-employ many of the staff over the coming months. It employs almost 1,700 people on an IDA industrial campus in Waterford.
It is the second jobs blow for the region in 24-hours and comes on the heels of reports that Waterford Wedgewood may seek to reduce its 1,000-strong workforce by almost 500 by next March.