The Nationalist Party has accused the government of creating an “injustice” by excluding 20,000 civil servants from long-service allowances because they are employed outside ministries and government departments. In a statement on Friday, the PN pointed out that, despite the introduction of the legal notice on “equal pay for equal work” last year,
The Government that introduced a legal notice on Equal Pay for Equal Work just a year ago is now itself discriminating against its own workers, the Nationalist Party has said. "Around 20,000 government employees will not benefit from an allowance that will be granted to workers who have served for the same number of years within the Civil Service.
Thousands of government employees are protesting what they describe as blatant discrimination after being excluded from a new long-service allowance set to be paid out in March, while unions remain conspicuously quiet. Trade union sources told The Shift that thousands of workers employed across the wider public service – including agencies, regulators
