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IRRC Northern Ireland Service Fact Sheet: Fair Employment and U.S. Companies in Northern Ireland January 2002

The Ten Largest U.S. Employers in Northern Ireland as of December 2001 Parent Company Protestant Catholic Pct Catholic Other/ Unknown TOTAL OSI Industries Inc. (pvt) 1,676 1,311 43.9 84 3,071 Caterpillar Inc. 1,613 592 26.8 67 2,272 Seagate Technology LLC (pvt) 504 1,241 71.1 98 1,843 Solectron Corp. 374 378 50.3 37 789 Nacco Industries Inc. 448 285 38.9 15 748 General Electric Co.  523 130 19.9 23 686 PriceWaterhouseCoopers (pvt) 382 261 40.6 41 684 DuPont (EI) de Nemours & Co. 239 419 63.7 9 667 Visteon Corp. 250 232 48.1 42 524 NTL Inc. 227 169 42.7 99 495 1 Solectron NI and Stream International. 2 One minority-owned affiliate, Charles Hurst, and four wholly-owned subsidiaries—GE Capital Woodchester (NI) and three very small operations. Note: Any fair employment assessment must compare each company’s work force to a local catchment area. The Catholic and Protestant proportions of catchment areas vary throughout Northern Ireland. IRRC Fair Employment Index Number of publicly traded U.S. firms with more than 10 employees in Northern Ireland: 73 (as of Dec. 2001), up from 50 in 1995 Total Northern Ireland employment at U.S. companies at the end of 2001: 21,928, up from 20,012 in 2000 and 17,400 in 1999—more than double the 10,200 employed when paramilitary groups declared ceasefires in 1994. Overall Catholic representation at U.S. companies in Northern Ireland at the end of 2001: 42.1 percent Catholic representation in the overall Northern Ireland work force at employers monitored by the Equality Commission, according to 2000 data, the latest available: 39.6 percent, up 4.7 points from 1990. Estimated Catholic proportion of the economically active population: 42 percent, up from 40 percent in 1990 Unemployment differential in 1999 according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency in March 2001: 1.8, down from 2.2 in 1980 Catholic men remain particularly more likely to be unemployed than Protestant men, and more likely to be unemployed throughout Northern Ireland, for longer periods. Number of U.S. employers with significant community under-representation: 20 (Catholics at 10, Protestants at 10) Number of discrimination complaints pending against U.S. firms at the Fair Employment Tribunal: 58 (as of Oct. 2001) Number of Fair Employment Tribunal cases lost or settled by U.S. companies currently in Northern Ireland: 34 Number of companies now in Northern Ireland with agreements on implementing the MacBride principles: 51 (73 agreements have been reached altogether but some companies no longer have ties to Northern Ireland). Number of local U.S. laws and substantive resolutions on fair employment in Northern Ireland: at least 35 Number of U.S. states with current Northern Ireland fair employment legislation: 17