Coronavirus: Sensata move to ‘voluntary minimal operational workforce’

The firm, which makes sensors, switches and controls for multiple industries, revealed the measure as it responded to claims about safe distancing at its Carrickfergus operation during the coronavirus outbreak.

East Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA John Stewart told this newspaper that a number of workers at the Trooperslane Industrial Estate site had contacted him with concerns.

In response, a spokesperson for Sensata, which also has a factory in Antrim, said: “As a global company with employees across the Americas, Europe and China, we have been navigating the Covid-19 situation since January. The health and safety of our people is a priority at this time and we have implemented many measures to ensure that Sensata’s sites in Northern Ireland are operating in line with the government’s requirements on social distancing and personal hygiene.