The Oil­fields Work­ers' Trade Union has been grant­ed an in­junc­tion by the In­dus­tri­al Court pre­vent­ing Petrotrin from car­ry­ing out its ter­mi­na­tion of work­ers.

This means the state-owned oil com­pa­ny will have to cease the cur­rent ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise, in­clud­ing of­fer­ing VSEP pack­ages, which it start­ed over the week­end as part of its plan to re­struc­ture the com­pa­ny.

Petrotrin re­quest­ed a stay of the mat­ter pend­ing an ap­peal but this was re­fused by the court.

The ba­sis of the union's ar­gu­ment is that the Petrotrin board ini­ti­at­ed the process of shut­ting down its op­er­a­tion with­out prop­er con­sul­ta­tion.

The court will sit on the mat­ter on Oc­to­ber 30 with a judge­ment ex­pect­ed three days there­after.

More as in­fo as de­tails come to hand.