TriniTuner.com | Latest Event:
Moderator: 3ne2nr Mods
adnj wrote:It only seems good if you don't live in the US. Trinidad has a cost of living that is about the same as in the State of Mississippi. But if you get a job working at Nissan Automotive in Mississippi, the starting pay is twice what you will get paid onboard a cruise ship with normal working hours.
A cruise line can't easily get someone with a degree, good people skills and good diction to come to work from Georgia, Florida or Mississippi for what they pay. And if you are a US resident or citizen, you are required to pay taxes on all income from anywhere in the world.
A hundred and twenty-six Digicel customer contact service centre employees have been retrenched this morning, as the company has transitioned to a consolidated regional centre in Jamaica.
The news was conveyed to the affected employees via teams meeting this morning.
The company in a statement on Monday said it has engaged several third-party customer contact-centre operators and is in discussions with them to absorb the affected employees into their operations in the coming weeks.
https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/m ... 43419.html
Dizzy28 wrote:A hundred and twenty-six Digicel customer contact service centre employees have been retrenched this morning, as the company has transitioned to a consolidated regional centre in Jamaica.
The news was conveyed to the affected employees via teams meeting this morning.
The company in a statement on Monday said it has engaged several third-party customer contact-centre operators and is in discussions with them to absorb the affected employees into their operations in the coming weeks.
https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/m ... 43419.html
Stork starts dismissing workers'The_Honourable wrote:Stork T&T to shutdown; 389 jobs at risk
STORK Technical Services T&T Ltd has informed staff that, due to a “bleak future financial outlook”, it is considering a phased shutdown of its operations, beginning this month and to be completed by the end of the year, potentially leaving 389 employees without jobs.
Stork said this action became necessary due to total losses of $84.1 million since 2020, and unsuccessful attempts to sell the company.
On Thursday, Stork sent a letter to “All Employees, not covered under the OWTU bargaining unit agreement”, inviting them to engage in consultation for the potential closure of the company.
That consultation took place in the form of a town hall meeting yesterday.
According to a letter from Stork’s country manager Rubby Vidal Arizabaleta, the continued losses, including those up to July this year, are “not sustainable”.
“The cumulative and ongoing losses that the company is suffering have resulted in and continue to result in a severe and irrecoverable shortfall in liquidity. In the seven months YTD July 2024, the Fluor Group has been obliged to provide aggregate external cash funding of $77,361,093 by way of a loan of $36,565,293 (in February 2024) and a recapitalisation of the company of $40,795,800 (in July 2024),” it stated.
"In addition, based on the current forecast of ongoing losses into the foreseeable months it is anticipated that the company will require a further capital injection of approximately $44,000,000 in September/October 2024 in order to maintain sufficient liquidity in the company to meet its ongoing obligations,” the letter stated.
Vidal Arizabaleta said having regard to this, the future viability had to be carefully considered.
“Taking all the relevant factors into account, including the compounding losses over the past years, aggregating to $84,108,065 and the bleak future financial outlook, a phased closing down of the company’s entire operations is being considered and a plan in relation to this possibility has been developed,” it stated.
“The plan contemplates the phased closing down of the company’s operations in Trinidad and Tobago. In this regard, you are hereby formally advised of the possible closure of the Company’s operations, and the concomitant possibility of a phased reduction in the Company’s workforce toward to this eventual possible closure,” the letter stated.
On March 1, 2016, Fluor Enterprise Inc acquired, from the UK-based private equity firm Arle Capital Partners, the global Stork Group (including Stork Technical Services T&T Ltd).
No buyers interested
By 2021 Fluor, as part of its “new strategic direction” decided to exit maintenance services in the Oil, Gas & Chemicals market and to divest the global Stork Group.
Initially, Stork planned a “One Stork Sale,” but finding it unfeasible, they opted instead to divest the regional components of the global business.
However, this strategy has not been successful for Stork T&T, and “currently no serious interest has been identified nor expected to become a reality.”
The letter stated that since 2017/2018, Stork Trinidad & Tobago’s engineering capabilities have not differentiated the company in a way that benefited from market growth or outperformed competitors.
“During the sale process of the LATAM business (of which Stork Trinidad & Tobago initially was part), large engineering project(s), which to date have incurred (and still incur) substantial losses (see table below for BP Ocelot project losses), have led to a carve out of Stork Trinidad & Tobago from the sale of Stork LATAM,” it stated.
The letter stated that the lack of financial results at Stork Trinidad & Tobago has led to multiple retrenchment processes over the years, but that these measures have not had a substantial effect on stabilising or improving financial performance.
“Market development in the core maintenance business in Trinidad & Tobago is under severe pressure from a volume, pricing and competition point of view. This has led and without action from the company, will continue to lead to negative financial results, as the available contracts to bid on have reduced significantly, the margins for which these get awarded have declined significantly and competition in the market is fierce,” it stated.
Stork stated that so far it has met its financial obligations to employees and creditors by substantial cash injections from its shareholder.
“The shareholder is considering, given its strategic rationale for the shareholder’s wider global business as defined in 2021, the lack of solid divestment perspective for its T&T business, the multi-year substantial negative performance and the lack of substantial market growth in Trinidad & Tobago, closing Stork Trinidad & Tobago, with a finalisation date of December 31st 2024,” it stated.
Stork T&T stated that given that the proposed course of action by the company is a complete closure of its business, “strictly speaking as a matter of law”, it is not obliged to pay any severance to the employees.
“However, as a gesture of good faith, the company will pay to each employee, an ex gratia payment, equivalent to the sum that they would have received in a retrenchment, under section 18(3) of the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act,” it stated.
An e-mail was sent to Vidal Arizabaleta for further clarification on the situation, but up to press time, no response was forthcoming.
https://trinidadexpress.com/business/st ... ebc59.html
Heard it was contract staff and the contracts came to an endscrewbash wrote:Throats being buss at ministry of health. Everybody wins.
hover11 wrote:Heard it was contract staff and the contracts came to an endscrewbash wrote:Throats being buss at ministry of health. Everybody wins.
Screws,screwbash wrote:hover11 wrote:Heard it was contract staff and the contracts came to an endscrewbash wrote:Throats being buss at ministry of health. Everybody wins.
Short term or long term contracts. I was told people being sent on vacation an to clear out their desk.
Former Rural Development minister Faris Al-Rawi claims workers who dealt with the COVID-19 response in the regional health authorities and several workers in the Attorney General’s Ministry are among the latest facing joblessness due to the non-renewal of contracts.
And the People’s National Movement (PNM) has established a hotline for people to inform the Opposition of firings, constructive dismissals, threats of firings, and contract non-renewals.
Al-Rawi and Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles spoke about the issues at a media briefing at the Office of the Opposition leader in Port-of-Spain yesterday.
This after recent claims by Government Ministers Barry Padarath and Saddam Hosein of contracts being renewed in the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) and the Rural Development Company’s (RDC) reforestation programme days before the April 28 General Election.
Yesterday, Beckles said people in several ministries are reporting issues and the PNM has established a hotline for this.
“The UNC’s mantra has been ‘when the UNC wins, everybody wins’ and we’ve had information coming to our attention from several quarters where a number of persons have been fired and are, of course, beginning to panic that this may very well be the UNC’s practice,” Beckles said.
Al-Rawi refuted Padarath’s claims that contractors at RDC and Cepep were collecting $45,000 monthly.
“That’s not true. At Cepep, the monthly contractor fee is $21,000. At RDC, the entire figure for the contractor is a whopping $4,581.60 cents.”
He said the RDC employs approximately 4,700 workers and a rehabilitation assistant earns $120 daily, tool operator $146 daily and foreman $165 daily. He said a Cepep labourer earns $135 daily, operator $145.20 daily and foreman $165 daily, adding there are over 10,700 at Cepep.
Noting that reviews of both programmes were underway, Al-Rawi said Padarath accused him of “taking in front” before mass firings occurred. He said he interpreted that as confirmation of mass firings.
He said PNM’s information is that the Government intends to review things en masse.
“Thousands of workers fear they’ll simply be put out of jobs either via reduction of the teams that contractors manage or via cancellation of the programme entirely,” Al-Rawi said.
“I can confirm that the Government appears to have taken an approach, especially with respect to COVID-19 workers at the RHAs. One RHA alone 700 workers, another RHA—900 workers, to simply not renew persons into their contract. So, the issue of firing is enlarged by non-renewal of contracts.”
He said 80 people in an RHA have already been sent into joblessness due to the non-renewal of their contracts.
“... Thousands, particularly across the lowest paid echelons of Cepep, Forestry and now the RHAs, where the direction has been given that there are to be no renewal of contracts for first-time contractors in particular ...”
He said he understood that at the Office of the Attorney General, several people have also been summarily brought forward for their contracts to be bought out to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Instead of putting them into another area of the AG’s Office, they’ve been brought forward, told ‘pack your bags immediately’, escorted out by security and told, ‘we’ll get back to you on the purchase of your contracts’.”
Al-Rawi pointed out that current Government senator Brian Baig worked at the AG’s Office and continued to so do uninterrupted when Al-Rawi was Attorney General during the PNM’s term in office. He said Baig wasn’t fired because of his politics and he appeared as a United National Congress senator from time to time. Al-Rawi said the only time he interacted with Baig regarding his job was when he saw him in the Senate’s public gallery during working hours and said a mere visit to the gallery didn’t warrant attendance.
He called on Government to ensure fairness and responsibility, adding that people who have political affiliations ought not to be so labelled “just because they received a contract at the time a government was in office.”
“It can’t be that everybody hired during our ten years of office must be labelled PNM and be escorted out with police,” Al-Rawi said.
Al-Rawi also rebutted Government claims over the extension of contracts. He said this was a matter squarely for the boards of directors of Cepep or RDC and procurement law requires certain processes to be done for new contracts.
“The extension of contracts is a matter that went before those boards and they took steps that they saw in the interest of business continuity, as it was explained to me—I as minister of Rural Development and Local Government gave no instructions and certainly could not and was not in any contract renewals per se. A minister, under the law, doesn’t extend into those things.
screwbash wrote:Former Rural Development minister Faris Al-Rawi claims workers who dealt with the COVID-19 response in the regional health authorities and several workers in the Attorney General’s Ministry are among the latest facing joblessness due to the non-renewal of contracts.
And the People’s National Movement (PNM) has established a hotline for people to inform the Opposition of firings, constructive dismissals, threats of firings, and contract non-renewals.
Al-Rawi and Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles spoke about the issues at a media briefing at the Office of the Opposition leader in Port-of-Spain yesterday.
This after recent claims by Government Ministers Barry Padarath and Saddam Hosein of contracts being renewed in the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) and the Rural Development Company’s (RDC) reforestation programme days before the April 28 General Election.
Yesterday, Beckles said people in several ministries are reporting issues and the PNM has established a hotline for this.
“The UNC’s mantra has been ‘when the UNC wins, everybody wins’ and we’ve had information coming to our attention from several quarters where a number of persons have been fired and are, of course, beginning to panic that this may very well be the UNC’s practice,” Beckles said.
Al-Rawi refuted Padarath’s claims that contractors at RDC and Cepep were collecting $45,000 monthly.
“That’s not true. At Cepep, the monthly contractor fee is $21,000. At RDC, the entire figure for the contractor is a whopping $4,581.60 cents.”
He said the RDC employs approximately 4,700 workers and a rehabilitation assistant earns $120 daily, tool operator $146 daily and foreman $165 daily. He said a Cepep labourer earns $135 daily, operator $145.20 daily and foreman $165 daily, adding there are over 10,700 at Cepep.
Noting that reviews of both programmes were underway, Al-Rawi said Padarath accused him of “taking in front” before mass firings occurred. He said he interpreted that as confirmation of mass firings.
He said PNM’s information is that the Government intends to review things en masse.
“Thousands of workers fear they’ll simply be put out of jobs either via reduction of the teams that contractors manage or via cancellation of the programme entirely,” Al-Rawi said.
“I can confirm that the Government appears to have taken an approach, especially with respect to COVID-19 workers at the RHAs. One RHA alone 700 workers, another RHA—900 workers, to simply not renew persons into their contract. So, the issue of firing is enlarged by non-renewal of contracts.”
He said 80 people in an RHA have already been sent into joblessness due to the non-renewal of their contracts.
“... Thousands, particularly across the lowest paid echelons of Cepep, Forestry and now the RHAs, where the direction has been given that there are to be no renewal of contracts for first-time contractors in particular ...”
He said he understood that at the Office of the Attorney General, several people have also been summarily brought forward for their contracts to be bought out to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Instead of putting them into another area of the AG’s Office, they’ve been brought forward, told ‘pack your bags immediately’, escorted out by security and told, ‘we’ll get back to you on the purchase of your contracts’.”
Al-Rawi pointed out that current Government senator Brian Baig worked at the AG’s Office and continued to so do uninterrupted when Al-Rawi was Attorney General during the PNM’s term in office. He said Baig wasn’t fired because of his politics and he appeared as a United National Congress senator from time to time. Al-Rawi said the only time he interacted with Baig regarding his job was when he saw him in the Senate’s public gallery during working hours and said a mere visit to the gallery didn’t warrant attendance.
He called on Government to ensure fairness and responsibility, adding that people who have political affiliations ought not to be so labelled “just because they received a contract at the time a government was in office.”
“It can’t be that everybody hired during our ten years of office must be labelled PNM and be escorted out with police,” Al-Rawi said.
Al-Rawi also rebutted Government claims over the extension of contracts. He said this was a matter squarely for the boards of directors of Cepep or RDC and procurement law requires certain processes to be done for new contracts.
“The extension of contracts is a matter that went before those boards and they took steps that they saw in the interest of business continuity, as it was explained to me—I as minister of Rural Development and Local Government gave no instructions and certainly could not and was not in any contract renewals per se. A minister, under the law, doesn’t extend into those things.
Everyone was warned and they still vote UNC.
screwbash wrote:you were warned. the blood bath continues. i hear a man say traffic wardens or some sort thing next. this is not the caring panday UNC, this is the UNC of a vindictive old bitter indian woman. allyuh know indian woman does get miserable when old.
Return to “Ole talk and more Ole talk”
Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 20 guests
