Canwest laying off 300 at city call centre
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CANWEST is laying off about 300 workers at its call centre in downtown Winnipeg and outsourcing the jobs to the Dominican Republic.
Phyllise Gelfand, director of communications for Canwest Publishing, said the call centre will likely shut by late summer, though phased-in lay-offs will start almost immediately.
The Reach Canada call centre handled circulation and subscription calls for most of Canwest’s big-city newspapers.
Gelfand said the closure has nothing to do with the company’s recent bankruptcy and sale. She said cost-cutting reviews of Canwest’s entire operation started in the fall of 2008 and prompted the outsourcing of the call centre jobs to an offshore firm.