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04/06/2008
Unpaid Bill May Shut Derry Call Centre
A half-million pound unpaid bill has placed some 50 jobs in jeopardy with a Londonderry call centre now likely to be closed.
Following earlier reports that the Foyle MP Mark Durkan had voiced fears for the future of Anderson Manning's office in Rosemount after the company failed to pay staff, he has now been warned that the office is likely to close following the sale of the firm to a venture capital company.
Problems began when their largest client recently ceased trading - leading to severe cash-flow problems and while the staff have now been paid, Anderson Manning has confirmed that it has been sold, but that redundancies could not be ruled out.
Forest Leaf Properties - the new owners - are likely to close the entire operation in Derry.
The MP for Foyle, the SDLP's Mark Durkan has again got involved in the issue and said the new owners needed to be in direct contact with the workers and "talk to them straight and clearly".
He said there had been "a lot of frustration and resentment that people haven't been told things over the past number of weeks".
Anderson Manning was Northern Ireland's first independent call centre. It employs about 150 people in Bangor and 50 in Derry.
But its fortunes took a turn for the worse recently, when its largest client went to the wall, owing Anderson Manning more than £500,000.
See: Call Centre Jobs In Doubt
(BMcC)
Following earlier reports that the Foyle MP Mark Durkan had voiced fears for the future of Anderson Manning's office in Rosemount after the company failed to pay staff, he has now been warned that the office is likely to close following the sale of the firm to a venture capital company.
Problems began when their largest client recently ceased trading - leading to severe cash-flow problems and while the staff have now been paid, Anderson Manning has confirmed that it has been sold, but that redundancies could not be ruled out.
Forest Leaf Properties - the new owners - are likely to close the entire operation in Derry.
The MP for Foyle, the SDLP's Mark Durkan has again got involved in the issue and said the new owners needed to be in direct contact with the workers and "talk to them straight and clearly".
He said there had been "a lot of frustration and resentment that people haven't been told things over the past number of weeks".
Anderson Manning was Northern Ireland's first independent call centre. It employs about 150 people in Bangor and 50 in Derry.
But its fortunes took a turn for the worse recently, when its largest client went to the wall, owing Anderson Manning more than £500,000.
See: Call Centre Jobs In Doubt
(BMcC)
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