Clearwire, the once great employer in Santa Rosa County, turned over its Milton operation to TeleTech. Most of its employees were transferred over to the new company on June 1. Yesterday 315 of those employees were told that they will be laid off in October. Some of the workers believe that the company may be pulling out of Santa Rosa County entirely.
An employee sent me this email: “They are laying us off in waves starting in September and ending in October when they cease operations here. There’s nothing that can be done about that. But it seems almost criminal that due to the 14 weeks of notice they’re giving us, very few people will qualify for separation pay and no one seems able to advise us what the actual separation pay policy is. Teletech advised us that they adopted Clearwire’s policy but since we’re no longer Clearwire employees, we have no access to their policy info.”