Heritage Malta can proceed and engage a security company temporarily by direct order, now that a court has turned down a request to issue an injunction.

Signal 8 Security Services, a security company, had asked the court to issue an injunction stopping Heritage Malta from entering into a contract with another party.

Signal 8 said that, following a call for applications, in December 2012 it was awarded a contract to provide security services at sites operated by Heritage Malta.

This contract was later extended until the end of March this year. During a meeting held at the beginning of March, however, Heritage Malta presented the company with an amendment to the original contract that included safeguards against precarious employment under a new government policy.

Signal 8 did not sign the amendment. It was later informed that its services were no longer needed and the service would temporarily be offered by another company until a call for applications was issued.

The court ruled that Signal 8 did not have an automatic right to be awarded the contract and it had chosen not to sign the amendment. There was nothing stopping it from bidding for the tender again.

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