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Web posted on June 2, 2001 at 10:30:00 AM CET Union requests stop to Maltacom promotions
The General Workers’ Union yesterday
applied for a prohibitory injunction against Maltacom to stop the corporation giving out
promotions to five employees.
James Pearsall and Tony Zarb as president and secretary-general respectively, filed the
application against Maurice Zarb Adami as chairman of Maltacom.
The union requested the court to order Maltacom not to give promotions to five corporation
employees – Mario Mamo, Cristino Sant, Charles Vassallo, Vincent Bonanno and
Josephine Agius.
If they were promoted, said the GWU, they would receive a higher salary than what was
agreed on in the 24 August 2000 collective agreement.
The union also said that the same collective agreement outlined the various circumstances
in which an employee could be promoted. The only way in which a person could be promoted
within the company would be after a call for applications, the terms of which had to be
agreed upon by the Maltacom human resources manager and the union.
The GWU said that despite these conditions, it had found out that the defendants were
going to give promotions to the above mentioned five employees, which would constitute a
violation of the collective agreement.
The union said that if the defendants were not stopped, the result would mean a breach of
other Maltacom employees’ rights. Dr Aron Mifsud Bonnici filed the application on
behalf of the GWU. |
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