Hours af­ter the Court of Ap­peal grant­ed Petrotrin a stay of an in­junc­tion award­ed to the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) which had pre­vi­ous­ly barred the com­pa­ny from re­trench­ing work­ers, the dis­tri­b­u­tion of ter­mi­na­tion let­ters re­sumed.

Guardian Me­dia ob­tained a copy of the in­ter­nal memo that was ad­dressed to all em­ploy­ees yes­ter­day, which stat­ed that the dis­tri­b­u­tion of let­ters had re­sumed and will con­tin­ue to­day.

Em­ploy­ees were asked to “please make every ef­fort to at­tend” the dis­tri­b­u­tion at the Pointe-a-Pierre Staff Club at the Pointe-a-Pierre Re­fin­ery. It stat­ed that yes­ter­day’s let­ters were on­ly for per­ma­nent em­ploy­ees.

The morn­ing ses­sion was des­ig­nat­ed for the cor­po­rate ar­eas of the Fi­nance Di­vi­sion, the HRSC Di­vi­sion and the chair­man’s group, while the evening was for the Re­fin­ing and Mar­ket­ing Di­vi­sion.

To­day, em­ploy­ees in the Ex­plo­ration and Pro­duc­tion Di­vi­sion are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive their let­ters. Staff said over 1,000 let­ters were dis­trib­uted since the re­trench­ment process be­gan.

But work­ers at Trin­mar said there has been no com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the com­pa­ny about when their let­ters would be avail­able.

The com­pa­ny is ex­pect­ed to cease op­er­a­tions on No­vem­ber 30, as it re­struc­tures fol­low­ing years of loss­es and mount­ing debt. In Au­gust, Petrotrin’s board of di­rec­tors an­nounced that the com­pa­ny would be ex­it­ing the mar­ket­ing and re­fin­ing busi­ness, thus shut­ting down its 101-year-old re­fin­ery. It al­so means that 4,800 jobs will be ter­mi­nat­ed.

On Mon­day, the In­dus­tri­al Court grant­ed the OW­TU an in­junc­tion which barred Petrotrin from re­trench­ing its work­ers. How­ev­er, the com­pa­ny ap­pealed on the grounds that the In­dus­tri­al Court did not have the au­thor­i­ty to pre­side on the mat­ter. On Wednes­day, the Court of Ap­peal gave Petrotrin the go-ahead to re­sume dis­trib­ut­ing let­ters of ter­mi­na­tion un­til the ap­peal has been com­plet­ed. The OW­TU has ad­vised work­ers to re­ject the let­ters.