Carol Doherty, previously a five-term Taunton School Committee member and now the 3rd Bristol District State Representative serving parts of Taunton and Easton. Doherty is the daughter of an immigrant family. Her mother came to America at the age of four from the island of Madeira and her father’s family came from Cape Verde. She has lived in Taunton since 1965.
This bill aims to protect call center jobs and disincentivize outsourcing and offshoring. The bill requires call center employers with 50 or more FTE workers who relocate at least 30% of call volume in a year to notify the state. The state will compile a semi-annual “bad actors” list of all call center employers that move at least 30% of calls overseas. Companies on this list will lose all grants, loans, tax benefits, and state contracts and the state can claw back the outstanding value of any taxpayer money or benefits the company received.