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Situation at Gozo Court leaves employees deeply concerned
Poor accessibility, health and safety concerns, primitive facilities and the limited space available at the Gozo law courts are driving employees of this institutions to seek job opportunities elsewhere to…
‘There is a price to pay if we opt for a metro’
€90 million annual recurrent expenditure and environmental impact A metro system in Malta would require a recurrent annual expenditure to the tune of €90 million and consequently government must tread…
CDAU employees transferred in retaliation for seeking health and safety assurances
Public health service employees within a specialized section for children were transferred elsewhere after Government refused to accept the request of UĦM Voice of the Workers for the premises to…
57 persons per day for an entire year
In just a decade Malta’s population has grown by almost a quarter and by 2019 it exceeded half a million. Such rapid expansion is even more spectacular as in actual…
Mental fatigue from Covid-19 taking its toll
A worrying drop in mental health wellbeing as a result of the impact of Covid-19 has been registered across the board in the EU including in Malta. This trend was…
Employee wins €12,000 in damages in case instituted by UĦM
A Malta International Airport employee was awarded €12,000 by the Industrial Tribunal ruled in a case of unfair dismissal which had been instituted by UĦM Voice of the Workers. The…
Government uninterested in improving carers’ conditions of work
More than a month since the start of industrial action in hospitals, old people’s homes and health centres, the Government has not yet taken any steps to find a solution…
A third could not afford holiday in 2020, a sixth unable to sustain a sudden expense
In 2020, a third of the Maltese population could not afford a week-long holiday while one in every six had no financial means to cover a sudden expense in excess…
Gap between rich and poor in Malta is widening
A significant increase in the gap between the rich and the poor has been observed in Malta over a seven-year period between 2010 and 2017, a study has concluded. On…
‘The black side of the Maltese black economy’ Central Bank chief on the recent money laundering scandals
The recent spate of high-profile money laundering arraignments involving financial practitioners, businessmen and politically-exposed persons have been described by the Central Bank of Malta governor as the “the black side…