WAYNE, Neb. (AP) — A Utah-based company has closed its call center in Wayne, costing around 50 mostly part-time workers their jobs.
Western Wats is based in Orem. On Tuesday, its public-relations company said in an e-mail to KTCH-AM in Wayne that it was closing the center because of declining customer demand. Western Wats does market research and political surveys.
In February last year, about 100 people lost their jobs in Chadron, Neb., when the company closed its call center there as well as those in Thatcher, Ariz., and Ephraim, Utah.
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In April, the company paid $500,000 in civil penalties for child-labor violations. Western Wats says many of the violations were technical.