Closed sealife centre cost six staff their jobs
Six jobs have been lost with the closure of the Scottish Sealife Sanctuary at Barcaldine.
Five other posts also went when it shut its doors on October 31 but they were seasonal positions.
A spokesperson for Merlin Entertainments said: ‘There were six redundancies. All other team members were seasonally contracted until October 31 therefore they finished up as their contracts ended.
‘Alternative employment was offered within Merlin, but this wasn’t taken up by any of the team, who have now all found alternative employment themselves.’
Merlin Entertainments made the ‘agonising’ decision to put the attraction up for sale in September after concluding the centre was ‘unsustainable’.
A buyer was not found before the closing day and the animals have now been relocated to sealife sites within the UK.
A spokesperson for Merlin confirmed the site is still for sale. They said: ‘The sanctuary is currently up for sale with our estate agents and we have no further update on the sale at present.’
The job losses at the Sealife Sanctuary were among latest unemployment and claimant figures released last week from the Department for Work and Pensions.
In October, the claimant count of people seeking work in Argyll and Bute stood at 860 people, down six per cent from the corresponding time last year.