The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) has requested an “urgent meeting” with the management at the Foundation for Educational Services (FES) following a complaints of a number of issues and problems being faced by its members.

The MUT has appealed with the FES to listen urgently to the FES Centres employees to address issues including, it said, “excessive stress, lack of resources, episodes of bullying at the workplace and dubious discipline practices against workers which in many cases may have been exaggerated or unnecessary, adverse conditions such as tremendous heat, serious health and safety issues, and Centre coordinators who are being loaded with major responsibilities without any central support.”

The statement by the MUT also said that certain coordinators are facing “unacceptable situations where they are being shared between two SkolaSajf Centres in addition to their Klabb 3-16 duties.”

“Some employees are reduced to a state where they are reluctantly seeking alternative employment because they cannot endure this type of work environment anymore.”

The MUT noted that there was a great similarity between the difficulties of employees at SkolaSajf and employees working at Child Care Centres and Klabb 3-16.

The Union thanked all employees at the SkolaSajf Centres “who with so much dedication managed to work despite the huge difficulties encountered at the FES.”

Permalink: MUT requests urgent meeting over problems faced by FES employees