NetEnt and Evolution settle Malta trade union dispute
By Owain Flanders
According to reports from Malta Today, NetEnt has reached an out-of-court settlement with the General Workers Union (GWU) for Malta.
As part of Evolution’s merger with NetEnt, the supplier planned to layoff around 300 of its Malta-based employees. NetEnt’s Malta employees were sent home in early December and instructed to await further information.
At the time, a spokesman reportedly told the Times of Malta that NetEnt’s Qormi-based studio would be permanently shut down, leaving all employees “at risk of redundancy.”
Last week, the GWU declared an industrial dispute with NetEnt and Evolution. The trade union argued that the gaming businesses refused to recognise it as a representative of the employees at risk of layoffs. The union also claimed the companies were breaching the law on collective redundancies due to the large number of potential layoffs.
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Gaming firm, union reach out of court settlement on planned lay-offs
The General Workers Union has withdrawn its application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction to block a mass lay-off plan by gaming company NetEnt after both sides reached an agreement following talks
17 December 2020, 11:25am
by Matthew Agius
The General Workers Union has withdrawn its application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction to block a mass lay-off plan by gaming company NetEnt after both sides reached an agreement following talks.
The news emerged when the case started being heard in the First Hall, Civil Court, presided over by Mr Justice Toni Abela, on Thursday.
Mathadi workers to strike tomorrow
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State-wide protest likely to affect supply of vegetables, fruits
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State-wide protest likely to affect supply of vegetables, fruits
Mathadi workers have decided to go on a State-wide strike on Monday to protest the non-fulfilment of their demands. The strike is likely to affect the supply of vegetables and fruits in Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur and other parts of the State.
The demands of the workers include reformation of Mathadi boards, providing employment to their children, and considering them as essential services and providing them with passes to travel on trains.
Maharashtra: Essential supplies to be affected due to mathadi workers one-day strike on Monday
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Supply of essential commodities like fruits and vegetables are likely to be affected on Monday as mathadi workers (head-loader) across the state will go on one-day token strike on December 14. They have demanded the reformation of Mathadi Boards, providing jobs to mathadi workersâ children and full-time chairman and secretary in the Mathadi Boards.
As the two-day winter session will be held in Mumbai, the mathadi union is to observe a one-day token strike on December 14 to put pressure on the state government to meet their long-pending demands.