Trinidad Cement reprimanded over dismissal of 16 workers

Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) had been reprimanded by the Industrial Court for dismissing 16 workers without giving them prior notice.

The President of the Industrial Court, Deborah Thomas-Felix, and members Albert Aberdeen and Morton Mitchell ruled that while TCL was guilty of an industrial relations offence, the court would not be taking further action as the Oilfields' Workers' Trade Union was complicit.

The union  filed the offence after TCL retrenched the workers in September 2018. The court case centred around the interpretation of the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act and the collective agreement between the union and the cement company.