Boeing are laying off 19 (out of a total of 24) of their most experienced 737 MAX licensed engineers in Dublin with RTS on the horizon. It strikes me as an incredibly callous commercially driven decision bearing in mind all the regulatory eyes that will be on the project.
On an empathetic level it will be a bitter pill to swallow for the engineers who have no prospects of similar employment in the near future particularly in Ireland. There isn't a job to be had in the sector.