A big boost for the contact industry in the city with up to 50 new full-time jobs being added to the Air Canada call centre in Millidgeville by this summer with recruitment beginning now.
Invest New Brunswick will be giving up to $225-thousand dollars over five years to create the entry-level customer service representative positions.
Premier David Alward tells CHSJ News the call centre industry in the province is very strong and stable and continues to grow with some 15,000 New Brunswickers working in the sector. He calls it a tremendously important sector in the greater Saint John area.
Vanstone says together with their regional airline partners they employ more than 280 people in the province, before this job announcement.