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Close to 400, mainly young people, are out of work today as the NCO Call Center closed yesterday.<\/p>

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The company shut down\u00a0after eight years of operating in Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

Staff confirmed that they were paid severance, vacation and other monies owed to them before the closure.<\/p>

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Prime Minister\u00a0Gaston Browne told those unemployed to consider entrepreneurship as a way of earning an income.<\/p>

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Some of the workers have already secured employment elsewhere and other former NCO workers are actively searching for jobs.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister\u00a0Gaston Browne told those unemployed to consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCall center closes, hundreds unemployed - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/call-center-closes-hundreds-unemployed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Call center closes, hundreds unemployed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Close to 400, mainly young people, are out of work today as the NCO Call Center closed yesterday. 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