Nutrien workers considering legal action

Em­ploy­ees at Nu­trien’s Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty are con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion fol­low­ing the fer­tilis­er gi­ant’s de­ci­sion to in­def­i­nite­ly shut down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions, amid grow­ing con­cerns over their sev­er­ance pack­ages.

Sources told Guardian Me­dia that some work­ers are ex­plor­ing their le­gal op­tions af­ter learn­ing that the com­pa­ny would not be of­fer­ing en­hanced sev­er­ance ben­e­fits, leav­ing long-serv­ing em­ploy­ees con­cerned about their fi­nan­cial fu­ture.

The de­vel­op­ment fol­lows com­plaints from em­ploy­ees who pre­vi­ous­ly ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over the pro­posed sev­er­ance arrange­ments, claim­ing they stand to re­ceive less than col­leagues who were re­trenched dur­ing a sim­i­lar ex­er­cise in 2020.