Proman sends home 100 workers

About 100 em­ploy­ees have been re­trenched by Pro­man Trinidad fol­low­ing a nine per cent re­duc­tion in its lo­cal work­force, deep­en­ing con­cerns about em­ploy­ment, in­vest­ment and the fu­ture of the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

The re­trench­ment ex­er­cise was com­plet­ed yes­ter­day, af­ter af­fect­ed work­ers re­ceived sep­a­ra­tion let­ters. Re­main­ing em­ploy­ees were in­formed by email lat­er in the day that the process had con­clud­ed.

In a re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia, Pro­man Trinidad said the re­duc­tion formed part of a glob­al or­gan­i­sa­tion­al align­ment ini­tia­tive. The com­pa­ny said all af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees had been no­ti­fied and sup­port ser­vices re­main avail­able to those leav­ing and those re­main­ing with the busi­ness.