Labour are holding a summit on the issue with major employers and unions.

Hotels, restaurants and bars are the major employers within the Irish hospitality sector.

However, major employers such as Fletcher Building and Sky City Entertainment may seek assistance.

Here we take a sector-by-sector look at some major employers and their working plans.

Bombardier, and its predecessors Shorts, have been major employers in Northern Ireland for decades.

There are also some major employers, such as Gaelic Foods, which employ up to 100 people.

High-tech space jobs are centered around Huntsville, with Boeing and Lockheed Martin LMT.N as major employers.

Several major employers not only hired Caribbean migrants, but actively recruited them directly from the West Indies.

Other major employers are expected to follow.

The major employers in both are supermarkets.

In contrast to the states, health insurance companies, major employers, and big hospital systems are among the best prepared.

However, many major employers have either never made use of clawback, withdrawn it, or capped the amount they take.

Employment It has a number of major employers too, spanning a variety of industries, including Apple, Heineken and Dulux.

Data centres, which are basically warehouses stuffed full of large computers storing information collected by tech companies, are not major employers.

Like all major employers, they have broken cover in recent weeks to talk about the huge cost of a no-deal Brexit.

Chief Economist at Economists.co.za, Mike Schüssler, says that we'll only see a change in the numbers once major employers increase salaries.