Dionne Rose, Staff Reporter
HUNDREDS OF Shell Com-pany workers should know their fate by the end of this month when the company is expected to change management.
Last November, the multi-national petroleum company announced it would be selling its 56 service stations in Jamaica to Cool Petroleum Holdings Limited, which is jointly owned by the Joe Issa-led Cool Corp. Limited and Trinidad and Tobago-based Neal and Massy Industrial Gas Holdings Limited.
The changeover, which should have been completed by December, has, however, been delayed.
END-OF-MONTH DEADLINE
Yesterday, Roger Bryan, Shell's country chairman for Jamaica, told The Gleaner that transfer of ownership should be completed shortly.
Mr. Bryan was, however, reluctant to give a time frame as to when the change over would be completed.
But Danny Roberts, vice-president of the National Workers Union (NWU), told The Gleaner that the date for the takeover has been extended to the end of this month.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
"I am still to receive a response from Mrs. Angela Hamel-Smith (group manager, human resources at Neal and Massy Holdings Limited), who is now actually in Jamaica and at Shell, in terms of a meeting to discuss the terms and conditions of the protocol," he said.
Mr. Bryan, however, assured that most if not all the workers would be given an opportunity to continue with the new company.
He said the terms and conditions of employment should not be significantly different.
