Bell Aliant To Cut Jobs

Major layoffs will allow Bell Aliant to keep all of its centres open.

Alyson Queen is the Public Affairs Manager for Bell Aliant.

She says the service provider will be cutting 100 of its management positions.

The cut will affect employees across all of the six provinces that Bell Aliant services.

She says in terms of specific impacts for each centre, they are not breaking down that information.

Queen adds that some of the employees will be let go this week.

While others will continue until the end of the year.

In July, 2010, Bell Aliant announced that they were set to shut down three of its five centres.

Employee lay-offs were announced as well.

An agreement has been reached which will see all of the centres remain open.