BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sep 25 2015 – The services of some contract and part-time workers of telecommunications company FLOW were terminated this week.
It is understood that those affected involved workers who were part of the Ericsson team, which was contracted by Cable & Wireless Communications, which now trades as FLOW, to manage services here. It is believed that all the contracted Ericsson employees will be going home by the end of October.
The affected employees include five from sales, some from customer support, technicians and some independent sales executives, as well as some employed directly by FLOW.
Ericsson was responsible for facilitating the modernization of Cable & Wireless Communications’ mobile network in the region.
At the end of June this year General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Toni Moore broke the news to reporters that a round of layoffs was pending at the company, following the takeover by Cable & Wireless Communications of Columbus Communications, which operated here as FLOW.
