The Malta Union of Teachers has registered a new industrial dispute with the Malta College of Arts Science and Technology (MCAST) following adverts in the press inviting applications for the post of ICT lecturers.
The MUT said the adverts indicated that successful candidates would be employed on a full-time basis and could benefit from reduced hours.
The MCAST management had refused to include a similar provision for lecturers already in the post during the talks on a collective agreement, the MUT said.
The advert, MUT said, provided for new working conditions for ICT recruits, creating different conditions of work for employees at the same workplace, blatantly breaching the recently signed agreement.