Supervision allowances dating to September still not paid - MUT

Supervision allowances and payments for personal development sessions affecting all teaching grades have not been paid since September. In a letter to the permanent secretary within the Education and Employment Ministry, Malta Union of Teachers president Kevin Bonello said that these payments have been promised with the wage issued in December.

Yet, they have not yet been settled to date, three wages later," the MUT president said.

Bonello said that when the MUT had notified the directorates concerned, they promised that the payments due would be made in the January salary.

"However, once again, the January salary was not accompanied by these payments," Bonello said.

In December the MUT was told that there was a problem of change of personnel in the salary section in Gozo and that this was affecting workings for all departments.

"The MUT believes that, a month later, this situation is no longer excusable. This situation is reflective of amateurism at its best," Bonello said.

The MUT warned that if the payments are not paid through a separate cash payment within 10 working days from today - until Monday 11 February - the MUT would be declaring a trade dispute with the Government and will be ordering directives affecting E-Learning Platform courses, Up-skilling Courses, PD Sessions, Break Supervision and Prize Days, without prejudice to further directives issued by Council.