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.