More layoffs coming for employees who worked at Ontario Science Centre
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More workers at the Ontario Science Centre are set to lose their jobs as the abruptly shuttered Toronto attraction contemplates a move to a temporary home.
More workers at the Ontario Science Centre are set to lose their jobs as the abruptly shuttered east-Toronto attraction contemplates a move to a temporary home, potentially in a neighbouring city.
Dexterra Group, which provided cleaning services for the attraction, sent a letter to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union last week, saying 28 employees will lose their jobs by Oct. 31.
The science centre has terminated its cleaning services agreement with Dexterra and that triggered the layoff notice, the company said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press.
The employees were given the news on Friday.
“They’re devastated,” said Martin Fischer the president of Local 549 of OPSEU that represents about 500 science centre workers.
“With the plans for science centre to continue at a new location, they really wanted to be part of that.”
One location being considered for a temporary science centre appears to be a convention centre site in Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto, Dexterra told the union.
The science centre, which abruptly closed to the public in June, said staff and the exhibits had to be gone from the facility by the end of October.
