Zminijietna – Voice of the Left, in a statement today, stressed that “although Government’s provision for universal childcare services was a big step forward, conditions of employment need to improve and further regulation is needed.”

Zminijietna added that it is “very concerned with the inferior conditions of employment that the workers in this sector find themselves in. Childcarers are experiencing low wages and precariousness in both the public and the private sector, and this is leading to a high turnover of workers.”

“Government should ensure that wages in both the public and private sectors increase, so as to reflect the high level of responsibility that childcarers have in the education of children in crucial years of their personal development,” said Zminijietna.

“Unionisation of childcarers should also be ensured without delay.” Zminijietna concluded that it supports MUT in its struggle to organise this sector and to improve the conditions of work. “Workers should be allowed to choose full-time employment.”

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