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- Malta stands accused of labour
abuses
- ICFTU Online..., 21 January 2000. A formal
complaint has been lodged today with a United Nations labour
body accusing Malta of ignoring international conventions on
labour rights.
- AD's Budget Proposals
- di-ve news, Monday 18 November 2002. Alternattiva
Demokratika—the Green Party believes that there should
be less taxes on income and economic inititiative and more
taxes on activities and products harming the environment and
wasting imited resources.
- New employment regulations brought
in
- By Herman Grech, The Times, 31 December
2002. Worker rights have been substantially beefed up
overnight, through eight legal notices relating to the new
Employment and Industrial Relations Act.
- Labour celebrates Workers' Day
- By Charlot Zahra, The Independent Online, 2
May 2004. The Labour Party held its traditional Workers'
Day demonstration. Dr Sant said, Today we were told we
should not celebrate Workers' Day because of Malta's
accession to the European Union.
- Government using tribunals to halt industrial
action
- By Matthew Xuereb, Independent, 17 May
2004. The government using the Industrial Tribunal as a
method of stopping trade unions from taking industrial
action. This was holding back the union from its right to
negotiate a collective agreement.