UĦM orders part-time clerks, school secretaries not to communicate as from next Monday

The UĦM’s industrial actions, which will enter into force next Monday, the first day of the new scholastic year, included not using means of communication like e-mails, intranet, internet, mobiles, pagers, faxes and telephones, as well as to work their additional hours according to the same pattern followed last year.

UĦM Government workers’ section secretary Edwin Balzan explained how the Unionhad to opt for industrial actions after the Education Ministry had “imposed a new working condition regarding the times worked by these part-time clerks”.

The new condition stipulated that they had “to spread their 30 hours across the whole five days of the working week,” Balzan added.

“This new condition was not discussed with this Union during the negotiations that it had with the Ministry,” the UĦM Government workers’ section secretary insisted in a statement issued shortly after 4pm today.

The directives had already been communicated to the Education Ministry administration, as well as to the public administration HR office at the OPM.