09/12/2009

Jobs Boost For Waterford

Telecoms company Talk Talk have announced plans recruit an additional 60 staff at its customer service and sales centre in Waterford.

The company already employs 700 people at the centre, which was established outside Waterford city in 1998.

It is understood that 50 of the new posts will be full-time and ten will be part-time.

The centre manages all contact for Talk Talk's customers across the UK.

The announcement is good news for Waterford, which has has been hit with hundreds of jobs losses this year.

There have been jobs losses at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Waterford Crystal, Waterford Stanley, ABB Transformers and Bausch and Lomb this year.

(KMcA/BMcc)

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