901 workers found working illegally in five months

c. camilleri

Oct 29th 2009, 16:08

The penalty is just an incentive to break the law. Really it pays to employ persons illegally.
Now one knows the reason why there are so many illegal workers around. Probably the majority of them are registering for work and getting social benefits. Let us be more serious and stop playing the fool.

mario gellel

Oct 29th 2009, 15:28

@D.Bonello
I have worked for 17 year in europe legaly and never had any problems. My point regarding illegal immigrnts listed as locals is to the fact that they hold a temporary Maltese ID card.
So I am sure that most of the so called locals were them. If not, then there is something wrong with the ETC for everybody got eyes and see that there are illegal immigrants working illegaly in every corner of this once beutyfull Island of Malta.

J Oatmon

Oct 29th 2009, 14:45

So you get a 58 euro fine for illegally employing any number of 'illegals' assuming you get maybe after a couple of years, and you decide to pay up - what a massive deterent, or should I say sick joke!

E. Azzopardi

Oct 29th 2009, 13:13

901 ONLY ? And 160 foreigners ONLY? How can so many people get away with it on this very little piece of rock?
These people never paid Social Security contributions and no tax. So they should be made to pay from the beginning with a minimum of six months? Those employing them should be fined heavily and immediately. This should be in the papers every month to make people aware. No wonder we have this scandalous deficit!!

Christian Sciberras

Oct 29th 2009, 13:10

@lgalea

The law is there for everyone, Maltese or not.

DVella

Oct 29th 2009, 13:07

With pathetic fines like those and such a poor level of enforcement . . . it is no wonder this abusive practice is widespread . . . are we really expected to believe that only 901 people working illegally could be found . . . in five whole months?? Are we really expected to believe that those fines serve as any deterrent?? If an employer engages an illegal worker for a mere week, gets caught and pays the fine, he will still have made a saving ! ! I am sure that there are cases where illegal workers are employed for far longer periods than that . . . . ! Do the Maths people . . . and GET REAL!

C.ZARB

Oct 29th 2009, 12:58

Jien miniex pro immigranti biss l argument hawn mghandux jaqa fuq dil haga. L aktar haga li ghandna ghalfejn niddiskutu hu kif dawn n nies hadmu nies illegalment al alla biss jaf kemm, ghamlu profit min fuqhom, ma halsux t taxxi u wehlu biss multa ta 130 euros. Imbaghad ghax l haddiem qed jitlob 6 euros mizeri, araw lil assocazzjonijiet favur l employers jigu inewwhu.

Jien ma nafx biss nghixu f'pajjiz fejn l medicini jistaw jilhqu prezzijiet ridikoli u hadd ma jghid xejn. Fejn nies li inqabdu fi skandlu tal VAT, jispiccaw jehlu sentenza farsa u fejn nies li inqabdu ihaddmu nies ILLEGALMENT jispiccaw jehlu multa terrifikanti ta 130 euros. Imbaghad alla hares jaghmel xi haga l malti tipiku ghax naghmlu show bih.

John Micallef

Oct 29th 2009, 12:56

The difference is that (for Non African) that is their only income, while the other one is getting a daily pocket money & telecards to call home (that in most time he is telling Malta is nice & they should join him) on top of that he is working without paying tax.

To give you an example on a different subject: Hunting by the only resident in Comino is legal, as he is the only person in Malta hunting for living, but a hunter that kills to eat a bird while he has his fridge full of meat is totally a different scenario. Hope this helps to understand the difference.


See the news & you know who is the most trouble maker, one comes here to make a living & improove his life, & the other one comes to create trouble. Once i heard that the correctional services in Kording are like being in the center of the Green Square in Tripoli.

Best of whorst i prefer to have 100 saints then one devil in my country.

& this is for the security side of it

Adrian Cachia

Oct 29th 2009, 12:50

@ Bernard Mamo - The fines are ridicilous!! I completely agree with you!!

Victor Mallia

Oct 29th 2009, 12:39

What a joke! In one week I can find you at least another thousand illegal workers by going round the building sites all over the island. Minister Dalli shouldn't accept such incompetence from the ETC.

victor borg

Oct 29th 2009, 12:37

WELL DONE MR DALLI.MAY BE YOU USE THESE MONEY FOR THE HEALTH SECTOR.

Dennis Agius

Oct 29th 2009, 12:34

If ETC personnel will call at marsa at any time in the morning they could find 500 less or more in only one day. anybody who use that raod know what i mean.

Ray Gatt

Oct 29th 2009, 12:30

The fines are a joke. An employer would rather take the risk as financially he would gain a lot. It's about time irregularities start being truly penalised in this pathetic republic

Donald Bonello

Oct 29th 2009, 12:23

Come on @J.Micallef and Mario, have you ever worked abroad outside your country of birth that is i mean try and work in the UK i think you might come back and form a difference of opinion my friend. and i agree with Galea.L. Most foreigners in the UK especially the Asian and the Black community are treated as second class citizens we all read the news and watch the Box/Telly/tv/ call what you will - don't we?

Mary Buttigieg

Oct 29th 2009, 12:01

160 Foreigners working IN MY country illegally and yet our Gozo Bishop is telling us to-day that alot of the Gozitan families are suffering hardship because unemployment, Where are these so called inspectors, why is always too late to catch up with these foreigners?

lgalea

Oct 29th 2009, 11:55

John Micallef, mario gellel
Good questions. Pity you still find those among us who prefer to defend the foreigners whether illegal immigrants or otherwise and of whatever colour instead of defending their Maltese brethren.

James Drury

Oct 29th 2009, 11:36

@ John Micallef

Why does it make a difference to you if they come from Africa or not?? I revert the question to you my fellow Maltese citizen..

How many Eastern Europeans did they find??

Why does it make a difference to you if they come from Africa or not, working Illegal is always illegal, both if you have white or darker skin..

Let's all stop throwing such comments!!!!

M. Mercieca

Oct 29th 2009, 11:31

To all that may be carried out as soon as reading the word illegal (and in many cases they do not read the article) and start shooting left, right and center please note that foreigners may include EU citizens or European citizens that are still asked to have the authority’s permission to work in Malta.

mario gellel

Oct 29th 2009, 11:24

Are illegal immigrants counted as locals and not as foreigners, may I ask ???????

John Micallef

Oct 29th 2009, 11:23

Only some 160 foreigners?? Somewere we are going wrong.

Of the 160 foreigners how many african emigrants their were? These emigrants are still taking their daily pocket money & work?!

I prefer to to an emigrant, having Social benefit from a country i never contributed to social security & work without declaring any tax.

Bernard Mamo

Oct 29th 2009, 11:20

kwazi kwazi jghatu incentivi biex ikomplu jhaddmu bla ktieb... €4451 bejn 34 kaz = bejn wiehed u iehor 130 each. Kemm hallsu taxxi fl-ahhar tal-gurnata dawn?