1,000 take up dockyard retirement schemes

The number of workers who have taken up the dockyard retirement schemes has approached 1,000, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said this evening. He was speaking during a discussion on the Granaries as part of the PN Independence celebrations. The past...

The number of workers who have taken up the dockyard retirement schemes has approached 1,000, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said this evening.

He was speaking during a discussion on the Granaries as part of the PN Independence celebrations.

The past week saw a surge of applications after the schemes were fine-tuned in agreement with the GWU - the number more than doubling since last Friday.

Malta Shipyards had a workforce of 1,627 before the schemes were launched.

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