New York-based IQT Solutions will move forward with the Nashville project ...

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean

Nashville’s economic development director Matt Wiltshire

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said Tuesday he was “dismayed” by IQT’s call-centre shutdown in Canada without proper notice, two weeks’ pay and vacation and other benefits. The incentive grant has been withdrawn.

Nashville’s economic development director Matt Wiltshire went further and said: “It’s unlikely IQT will move forward with the Nashville project ... we’re no longer talking to them.”
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MONTREAL - The Quebec government and Bell Canada will help the 1,200 call-centre workers laid off abruptly without notice by U.S.-owned IQT Solutions Inc. in Laval, Trois Rivières and Oshawa, Ont., on Friday.

But New York-based IQT Solutions will likely be thwarted in its plan to shift its corporate headquarters to a new 60,000-square-foot building in downtown Nashville, Tenn., with space for a call centre with 900 workers and a $1.6-million (U.S.) incentive grant.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said Tuesday he was “dismayed” by IQT’s call-centre shutdown in Canada without proper notice, two weeks’ pay and vacation and other benefits. The incentive grant has been withdrawn.

Nashville’s economic development director Matt Wiltshire went further and said: “It’s unlikely IQT will move forward with the Nashville project ... we’re no longer talking to them.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Help+coming+staff+call+centre/5125241/story.html


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