These are the main stories featured in Saturday's newspapers:

Times of Malta reports that a former supermarket chain co-owned by the Deputy Prime Minister’s chief of staff had been pursued by the Inland Revenue Department for unpaid taxes and penalties totalling €2.9 million. It also reports that small and medium enterprises have shot down an EU directive through which men will benefit from 10 days of paternity leave while employers said they will not fork out a cent.

L-orizzont quotes Prime Minister Joseph Muscat saying unemployment had been slashed by 75 per cent in six years. It also reports that Astracast employees will be getting their pays until the company's date of closure.

In-Nazzjon focuses on the state of the Corradino Correction Facility, saying that prisoners had been reported taking drugs while others were on hunger strike. 

The Malta Independent says MCAST was waiting for the teachers' union to lift directives as educators' salaries were finally paid out.