Angele Deguara, Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party spokesperson for Social Policy and Civil Rights, said today, that “after forty years, ex-employees who were previously employed with the Malta Electricity Board still require social justice.

“In the 1960s, two cabinet decisions and an official circular issued by the Board of Directors made it clear that these workers were identical to government employees and that they would be entitled to the same pension conditions. However, these pensioners were never given their rightful pension. Their rights have been ignored by six prime-ministers.

“A recent court ruling, in fact, has admitted that these pensioners should have been given equivalent pension entitlements like those given to government employees but, because the case has become prescribed, the court could not enforce this right,” Angele Deguara concluded.

Michael Briguglio, AD Chairperson said, “in parliament AD will ensure that pensioners who were entitled to contributory pensions of which they were eventually deprived, such as British Services pensioners and ex-electricity board pensioners will be compensated for having been deprived of the pension they were due.”

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