Unemployment Count Thread

[skylinechild]

so what gonna go on with all the staff from those bmobile locations
(sorry i didnt read through previous pages in case this question is already answered)

depends on the color of ur ID badge....

once ur badge colored youre permanent - you'll get a letter telling you where you should have reported to (on jan 2nd 2018) and to whom and to what dept and what ur job duties is.

if ur IID badge is white youre contract - you'll not get reassigned...instead they'll keep u in the public office to help finish up work...pack up boxes....and then they'll tell you to wait on a phone call.

this exercise will coincide with march 31st - end of the financial yr- so when they tell u wait on a phone call they essentially sending you home.

[Chimera]

how much contract workers we talking here gonna be out of a job come march 31st?

[skylinechild]

how much contract workers we talking here gonna be out of a job come march 31st?

if you ever walked into a TSTT branch.... you'd know

TSTT wants a hierarchy where everyone who is a professional and above - professional / manager / section manager HOD ( head of dept) executive .....these are the ppl they want permanent.

anyone lower - supervisors / techs / workers / csr / cashiers/ sales . disconnection & reconections etc....contract

you tell me...

you go into TSTT to apply for a service a CSR does it.. .billing issue another CSR.....reconnection another CSR.....cashier.....etc

only time u see a manager is when you get piss poor service from a CSR or the system shows up wit some error...billing / accounting etc or threaten to remove service....

[The_Honourable]

More job cuts coming at UTT

Staff at the University of T&T (UTT) have started clearing their desks as management gets ready for its retrenchment process by month’s end, just ten days away.

287 members of staff, including academics, are expected to be sent home. When this exercise is completed, it is expected to save the university approximately $41.5 million.

The Sunday Guardian understands that on January 15, in a letter signed by UTT’s President Sarim Al-Zubaidy, he sought to update staff on the restructuring.

In the letter, he stated that on January 11, the separation proposal was submitted to the Recognised Majority Union, the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU), as well as the Ministry of Education. “We are currently awaiting feedback from both entities,” Al-Zubaidy stated.

A UTT source said staffers remain "very concerned and scared of what the future holds".

"It is very grim, with this list of 287 to go home, some of them have already cleaned up their desks and just waiting on letters now...it is very frightening."

When contacted yesterday, OWTU’s 2nd vice president Sati-Gajadhar Inniss confirmed that the union received a proposal from Al-Zubaidy.

“We are now carefully reviewing the UTT’s proposal and as such, we have replied informing them an extension of time is required to review and submit a cogent response to both themselves and the ministry,” Inniss said.

The cost saving from the last restructuring exercise which involved academics staff has been estimated at $35.5 million, while the upcoming retrenchment will save an estimated $41.5 million.

"But he is saying a further sum of $20 million as an additional proposal in further reduction of staff…" Inniss added.

"So, who is going to run the administrative aspect of the university?”

She believes the aim is to break workers’ tenure of employment but assured that the union will “do everything within the law” to protect workers.

“We will ensure that even whatever they do, and they can also do things untimely, that we will do everything within the law to protect workers.”

Some people have been working at UTT on contract for the past ten years or more.

It is believed that UTT is moving to have workers sent home before the scheduled March 2018 court date, where workers are seeking regularisation to become permanent members of staff.

Inniss said in December 2016 they requested information about the department sin the university’s structure, each position that exists and the name of the person in that post. They only received that information on January 11, 2018.

Attempts to contact the vice chairman Prof Clement Imbert were unsuccessful.

Roget: We will be responding to Education Minister

OWTU head Ancel Roget said they will be responding directly to Education Minister Anthony Garcia, because he has been presiding at all meetings between the union and UTT. “Indeed, they have intentions of retrenching over 200 workers.”

He also admitted that UTT’s management and the Board have not been providing all the information requested for them to make sense of what they are trying to do at the university.

“If UTT is going to have retrenchment letters sent out they would be acting so in bad faith as we are still in discussions. If they are in violation of instructions from the minister and good industrial relations practice, we will have a problem with that,” Roget said.

More info

For the past several months, UTT has been seeing “hard times” including the cutting of staff—both managerial and academic, the discontinuation of programmes and the late delivery of salaries to staff.

On November 1, 2017, UTT’s Chairman of the Board of Governors Prof Kenneth Julien announced that UTT will not be able to continue operations beyond January 2018.

He also noted that effective November 10, there was expected to be significant job cuts at the managerial and academic levels. Julien said this was a result of severe financial constraints over the past year.

UTT recorded a deficit of $33 million in November 2017 while its reserves currently stand at $2 million.

Meanwhile, $323,059,056 of the university's “unspent funds” have been transferred to the UTT's Signature Building Complex project at Tamana InTech Park.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2018-01- ... coming-utt

[Dizzy28]

Is it considered retrenchment if they don't renew the contracts of employees who are on fixed term arrangements?

[The_Honourable]

Over 400 jobs impacted as Caribbean Nitrogen Company shuts down Point Lisas ammonia plant

Caribbean Nitrogen Company (CNC) today announced that it has been forced to immediately shut down its ammonia plant on the Point Lisas Industrial Estate in Trinidad.

The company says the shutdown is a result of action taken by the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) to cut off gas supply to the plant.

Commenting on the plant shutdown, Jerome Dookie, CEO of CNC, said: “We had no choice but to shut down the plant to ensure the well-being of our people and protect our investment. Unfortunately, this action by NGC will negatively affect the future of our 110 loyal workers”.

It is also estimated that as many as 300 additional workers indirectly connected to the operations will also be affected.

Dookie added; “The situation is highly regrettable given that CNC has been in a dialogue with The National Gas Company for almost a year. CNC had even accepted multiple interim extensions of our gas supply, until yesterday, at a detrimental cost to itself. These extensions were implemented to facilitate further discussions between CNC and NGC to agree on the terms of a long-term gas supply contract. The NGC has, however, been unresponsive to the many concessions CNC has made, and unrealistic as to the global forces affecting not only CNC’s exports, but Trinidad’s exports of ammonia, which must compete in the international marketplace. The NGC is unfortunately making Trinidad the world’s marginal producer of ammonia with its uneconomical pricing policies.”

The CNC CEO also referred to the Government’s intervention in the matter.

“We acknowledge the efforts of the Government to assist in the resolution of this matter and the key role that it plays in maintaining the stability and sustainability of this vital sector in the National interest. Our sincere hope is that the Government understands our obligation to protect the interests of our employees, our partners, our customers and our shareholders,” he said.

Dookie concluded: “The company regrets the negative impact the shutdown will have on everyone involved. While we remain committed to resolving all outstanding issues with The National Gas Company, we will also continue to explore all available options to protect our interests.”

Source: http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/ove ... onia-plant

[zoom rader]

^^^ Sad. They should now start doing plant shut down maintenance

I get the feeling that NGC management is at fault here with PNM not showing much instrest

This is also trickle down effect as both TTEC and Wasa (desal) are effected

[Rovin]

"great" is d pnm or is it blame kamla ......

[Miktay]

iz thiz a gas supply issue or a revenue issue?

[sMASH]

'affected' does not mean 'fired'. it means, they are throwing the blame on NGC, and by extension the government.
they are playing up the scenes to get the public support, in the form of the unions. and let them use this as an additional excuse to publicly bully the government into letting them get the gas cheap....

[gencon]

buys used nissan serena, works taxi, makes 800 a day, lives life happily ever after.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Blame kamala

[desifemlove]

Is it considered retrenchment if they don't renew the contracts of employees who are on fixed term arrangements?

Nah those with autism like you don't get these things

[RBphoto]

'affected' does not mean 'fired'. it means, they are throwing the blame on NGC, and by extension the government.
they are playing up the scenes to get the public support, in the form of the unions. and let them use this as an additional excuse to publicly bully the government into letting them get the gas cheap....

Was thinking the same thing.

[lalloboy101]

RB, how things in the plaza bro?

[dougla_boy]

http://moe.gov.tt/News/Vacancies

[kstt]

http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/500 ... uld-be-cut

Ironic.

Tobago want self-governance?

[zoom rader]

Most likely it will be non pnm workers that will get the axe

[The_Honourable]

Tobago eh riot yet...

[zoom rader]

Tobago eh riot yet...

If it was kams government doing this then war would have broken out

[TriP]

Information received, roughly 25 persons were retrenched at Cadel Trading( Francis Fashion's Head Office)

[Dizzy28]

Information received, roughly 25 persons were retrenched at Cadel Trading( Francis Fashion's Head Office)

Coca Cola still hafta sell

[TriP]

No dismissal of staff at the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services

The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services wishes to advise that there have been no dismissals of staff at the Ministry, as indicated by media reports.

The Ministry, in keeping with its mandate and new strategic direction, is currently reviewing its organizational structure to ensure alignment. The restructuring exercise includes the identification of the organization’s human resource needs in the short, medium and long term. Persons are therefore being recruited and retained in keeping with our identified needs.

On March 31, 2018 the short term contracts of a number of employees expired and they exited the organization via natural attrition. The Ministry will continue to exercise the available option of offering new short term contracts, as necessary, in order to ensure the provision of efficient and effective service to all clients and stakeholders.

[redmanjp]

In other words short term staff got sent home

[TRAE]

I'm unfortunately one of the ones that fall in that bracket-

Ministry embarked on a mandatory seminar where they assured that jobs wouldn't be lost- they sent out the positions and had no interviews for the ICT department (all of which are short term). The last email sent out was basically a send home email saying that the contracts arent being renewed- then a response from the Heads came out after saying they cutting staffing. Pretty unfair if you ask me to have employees living under duress like this in this hard times that I would say is a byproduct of mis-management of our finances. But governement aside- these past years under this regime has been the hardest and most degrading that I've seen. The positions for the managers were filled and were advertised for 3 years and upon signing had the contracts done up for 1 year.

So far my team- the entire Informations and Communications department is currently outta work and waiting to see what happens next.

[burkmenistan]

lol. cosallyuh don't plan properly.

[K74T]

lol. cosallyuh don't plan properly.

Is “cos” yuh say there?

Look guys it’s desifemlove’s new account.

[D Diesel Report]

I'm unfortunately one of the ones that fall in that bracket-

Ministry embarked on a mandatory seminar where they assured that jobs wouldn't be lost- they sent out the positions and had no interviews for the ICT department (all of which are short term). The last email sent out was basically a send home email saying that the contracts arent being renewed- then a response from the Heads came out after saying they cutting staffing. Pretty unfair if you ask me to have employees living under duress like this in this hard times that I would say is a byproduct of mis-management of our finances. But governement aside- these past years under this regime has been the hardest and most degrading that I've seen. The positions for the managers were filled and were advertised for 3 years and upon signing had the contracts done up for 1 year.

So far my team- the entire Informations and Communications department is currently outta work and waiting to see what happens next.

Suggest allyuh wash car, cause it have real people who have car on loan, never mind they have no food on the table, but they want their vehicle to look dapper. They will pay to have it washed.

No luck getting a job in KFC though, they not hiring anyone new.

Don't worry about it, it's only going to last until Bawlhead get voted out. I give it about 8 more years of suffering.

[burkmenistan]

lol. cosallyuh don't plan properly.

Is “cos” yuh say there?

Look guys it’s desifemlove’s new account.

what wrong with cos? are you dopey enough not to comprehend web slangs? that's yuh UWI ed for you.

[TRAE]

I'm unfortunately one of the ones that fall in that bracket-

Ministry embarked on a mandatory seminar where they assured that jobs wouldn't be lost- they sent out the positions and had no interviews for the ICT department (all of which are short term). The last email sent out was basically a send home email saying that the contracts arent being renewed- then a response from the Heads came out after saying they cutting staffing. Pretty unfair if you ask me to have employees living under duress like this in this hard times that I would say is a byproduct of mis-management of our finances. But governement aside- these past years under this regime has been the hardest and most degrading that I've seen. The positions for the managers were filled and were advertised for 3 years and upon signing had the contracts done up for 1 year.

So far my team- the entire Informations and Communications department is currently outta work and waiting to see what happens next.

Suggest allyuh wash car, cause it have real people who have car on loan, never mind they have no food on the table, but they want their vehicle to look dapper. They will pay to have it washed.

No luck getting a job in KFC though, they not hiring anyone new.

Don't worry about it, it's only going to last until Bawlhead get voted out. I give it about 8 more years of suffering.

Im confused as to the satire you're using. This probably the highest unemployment rate this country has seen in probably it's history... But that's not to say that we shouldn't still abide by employment laws- the ministry workers that are on contracts aren't the ones that sit around like public servants and still there wasn't a warning or letter issued. Currently the ministry is still without an ICT department while we're awaiting word- I think that this a reflection of the entire failure of the government even in something as simple as advising staff of management changes. Meanwhile everyday some taxpaying citizen is being robbed and given small bail and our police officers have assumed the role of Traffic wardens- cause it seems that's the only crime they can solve. We have an influx of vene, guns, drugs, pirates, blatant thievery from the heads, global shaming of our country- sigh... feel I hadda migrate yes... carry on