470 Nutrien employees back at work after short layoff

Several hundred Nutrienmine workers are back at workat the company's Vanscoy potash mine southwest of Saskatoon following a six-day layoff period.

"This was always planned as a temporary downtime to manage inventory levels," said Will Tigley, a company spokesperson, via email.

The Vanscoy layoff affected 470 Nutrien employees, not counting workers for subcontractors at the production site.

A similar temporary layoff of workers from the company's Allan mine property is still scheduled to begin on Sunday, said Tigley.

That layoff will affect 140 workers.