Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago intends to reduce its overall staff complement by 4 percent as part of its ongoing restructuring programme to improve the company's efficiency. Approximately 40 members of its managerial staff have been separated from the company recently. TSTT has since written to the Communication Workers Union advising them that the company has identified 83 employees from within general staff whose positions have been identified as redundant with plans for separation. Prior to giving formal notice of retrenchment and in accordance with the Industrial Relations Act, the company has invited the union to meet with it to discuss a suitable way for addressing how both parties might look after the best interest of these employees and the company. TSTT has been engaged in identifying those jobs that are surplus to its current requirements as a direct result of the need to restructure the organisation within the recently liberalised telecommunications sector and reduce cost.
