The Malta Union of Teachers is giving the government two weeks to rectify its position on "supply" workers, namely teachers, kindergarten assistants and learning support assistants.

In a statement the union said it was reserving the right to take any action it deemed fit to ensure justice with its members.

In a letter to the Education Minister, the union said that on October 31 it had declared an industrial dispute with the government on a number of issues, including this one.

Although two months had passed, little progress was registered. The union said it was insisting that workers in supply categories who had been in the job for four years should start getting increases according to their respective scales. This, it said, was in conformity with an EU directive on similar jobs.

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