The Malta Independent quotes MCAST that it has settled all pending payments with lecturers and expects the Malta Union of Teachers to lift its industrial actions. The situation led to threats of strikes by students themselves, who said they were being badly affected by the dispute.
The Times reports that the Inland Revenue Department is demanding a €2.9 million tax bill from the Deputy Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Carmen Sammut. The Chief of Staff was director and shareholder of a now-closed supermarket chain between 2005 and 2012. Contact by the paper, Sammut denied the claims.
The Malta Independent covers an interview with GRTU CEO Abigail Mamo who said that the draft-agreement between the government and the Corinthia Group over land in St George’s bay ‘tramples upon fundamental principles’.
The Times quotes the reaction by the Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises (GRTU) to the proposed EU directive granting 10 days of paternity leave to men. The GRTU says that the lack of human resource causes a strain on small businesses and favours ways to increase participation of women in the labour market.
L-Orizzont follows up on the case of Astra Cast which shut its factory last week. The paper says that the General Workers Union saw that the 32 employees received the full pay due to them until the last day.
In-Nazzjon leads with a report on a ‘chaotic situation’ at the Correctional Facilities in Kordin, as inmates result positive in drug tests. Several prisoners in Division 6 are also on a hunger strike, reveals the paper.
L-Orizzont quotes Prime Minister Joseph Muscat who says that the current unemployment rate is the lowest since 195, when statistics were first recorded. Muscat said that in the pat six years, unemployment went down by 75 percent.
In another story, L-Orizzont reports on the presentation of the Child Care Act by the Ministry of Social Solidarity. Minister Michael Falzon said that a bill, which has bipartisan support, will allow foster carers to request the right to adopt a child after five years in their care.
