Thursday, December 1, 2016

Call for Brussels job applications ‘unauthorised’

The Education Ministry said a verbal warning had been issued to the employee who made the call for applications to work at Malta House in Brussels.

An Education Ministry employee was verbally cautioned for circulating what a spokeswoman said was an "unauthorised" call for applications at Malta House in Brussels. The Institute for European Studies on Monday circulated an e-mail about promoting the vacancies. The e-mail said the institute had been notified that Malta's Permanent Representation to the EU was looking for graduates to work at Malta House during Malta's stint as president of the European Council in the areas of employment and social affairs. The e-mail said that successful applicants would be engaged on a temporary basis and that the remuneration package included diplomatic allowances "and the like". Those interested were asked to send their CVs to a ministerial employee, Aaron Abdilla. The Times of Malta sent an e-mail to Mr Abdilla asking how many vacancies would be filled and why no public call for applications had been issued, but a spokeswoman for the Education Ministry replied instead. She said the call for applications was an "unauthorised personal initiative" and that the notification had been withdrawn since no such vacancies existed. Asked to elaborate and to say on whose initiative the call for...

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