Wednesday, 4th November 2009 - 15:59CET

ADT workers awarded €12,000 each for unfair dismissal

Two former employees of the Malta Transport Authority, Concetta Abela and George Schembri, were today given €12,000 each in compensation after an Industrial Tribunal found they had been unfairly dismissed.

Ms Abela was also reinstated.

The tribunal said the ADT had based its decisions to dismiss Mr Schembri and Ms Abela on the basis that their employment had been illegal. This meant, the tribunal said, that the ADT itself had been acting illegally. Both were engaged as part-time clerks and dismissed immediately after their contract was made permanent.

The tribunal said that since the ADT had, in effect, admitted breaking the law when it engaged these workers it was forwarding a copy of its award to the Prime Minister.

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Comments

Paul Barrett (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

I really do get totally confused.
If the two were illegally employed they were not legally employed therefore they could not be illegally dismissed.
On that basis, they must have been legally employed and thus the dismissal was illegal.
The question therefore is, on what basis did ADT think the two were illegally employed.
Why did only one get reinstated but not the other one.
Back to the drawing board LOL.

Michael Seychell (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

I have commented on the efficiency, or rather lack of it, and on possible irregularities the ADT may have committed, but this case exceeds all limits since it is the ADT itself which has confessed of commirtting an irregularity. .

How could the ADT discharge two employees because the Authority itself had employed them in an irregular manner. Can the CEO or his Chairman elucidate the general public what kind of irregularty had been committed when they employed these two workers.

Can the general public be assured that there were/are no other workers employed irregularly with the ADT.

Can the ADT confirm that no other irregularities whatsoevr were committed on any of its vast operations and responsibilities.

Now that the ADT has admitted before the Industrial Tribunal that it had committed an irregularity on an employment issue, can the ADT Chairman or the Minister responsible for this Authoprity, inform the general public what action is going to be taken on this case.

Finally what kind of reaction or action can we expect to see from the ETC when the ADT admited that as an emloyer it had committed employment irreghularities.

Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta

r pace bonello (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

The Chairman/ CEO of this Authority has to be admired for his staying power, if for nothing else! How he can stay on surrounded by all the mess, mismanagement, incompetence, wastage of public funds etc. is beyond imagination.

And where is his boss?

Mnauel Micallef (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

X'tahwid;

mamma mia dal- gvern sar !!

G Camilleri (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

Good one Julian !! Hahaha. It's really messed up badly

Colin Camilleri (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

I have always been under the impression that these things happened only under PL governments. But it seems that under the PN there are loads of irregularities going on.
Funny enough these illegal actions cannot be caught on speed cameras! It would be interesting how many familiar faces we would recognise!!!!

Julian Borg (2 weeks, 5 days ago)

L-ADT - bhal MEPA u d-dipartiment tal-VAT, tidher li hi bejta tat-tahwid.