T-Mobile (DTE) in March revealed plans to lay off 5% of its workforce and close seven call-centers in an attempt to restructure the company and reduce costs. The U.S. Labor Department recently found that the troubled wireless provider moved jobs overseas after it closed local call-centers and laid off thousands of U.S. employees, Bloomberg reports. “The workers’ firm has acquired from a foreign country services like or directly competitive with services supplied by the workers which contributed importantly to worker group separations at T-Mobile USA,” the Department said in a decision posted on its website, concluding that the laid off workers were entitled to apply for government assistance. David Henderson, a spokesman for T-Mobile USA, said the company was “surprised” by the
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