Around 300 Irish-based jobs are under threat at video-sharing platform TikTok.
Almost 3,000 staff are employed at the company’s Irish operation and last month workers were informed that they would be impacted by global cuts.
The Government has been told that around 300 jobs are at risk.
The Department of Enterprise has received a redundancy notification from TikTok.
“The department received a collective redundancy notification in relation to potential redundancies at TikTok Technology Limited on 4 March 2025,” a spokesperson for the department said.
“Any further queries should be directed to the company,” they added.
TikTok has declined to comment.
It is understood that the company is laying off staff globally at its trust and safety unit which handles content moderation, as part of a restructuring.
Last July, TikTok warned of Irish-based job cuts at its monetisation integrity team.
In February 2024, it announced plans to restructure its training and quality division which affected hundreds of Irish-based roles.
At the time, the company said that many of those staff would be redeployed within the company.
In January last year, TikTok said that around 20 Irish-based jobs were at risk due to a restructuring of its small and medium business division.
The company’s Irish operation is playing a central role in its efforts to reassure European regulators that user data is secure.
“Project Clover” is TikTok’s data security plan and it involves the storage of European user information at data centres in Dublin and Norway.
The Chinese-owned video-sharing app has faced scrutiny over how much access China has to user data.
