It is a total shame that the previous administration, not only allowed but instigated this state of affairs, where thousands of foreigners including Eastern Europeans, who have no right to be working here, have invaded our shores.

One only needs to look at certain job vacancies being advertised on that sorry excuse for a newspaper ” the Times” .

In a lot of cases, they not only ask for Danish, Swedish, Norwegian etc., speaking people BUT for natives of these countries and several others. Need I say more !

[Daphne – People from the countries you mentioned have every right to live and work in Malta, just as you have every right to live and work in their countries. I gather you haven’t yet registered the fact that we joined the European Union in 2004. Norwegians have that right too, under other reciprocal agreements. It’s made Malta a whole lot more tolerable a place to be in.]

Many of these companies bring jobs and people to this country generating taxes that are collected and jobs for Maltese.

The PN gave those employees of companies registered with the FSA tax breaks of over half their income tax. (My company is not registered with the FSA.)

Aye, that he did. I’d like to see how things are supposed work out on both counts, with the ‘Roadmap’ and all that.

I love ABBA.

The ETC’s remit is to regulate employment.

Following up illegal employment could well mean more immigrants would be employed legally and would therefore be able to enjoy full employment rights.

Good. It can’t happen soon enough.

Don’t you think you are asking him to much :)

This problem can be solved by

1) Cutting social benefits for those who refuse to work (but then he has to face the other minister which we all know that she has a particular skill on how to tell people to take benefits from the state.

2) ETC should check on those businesses employing employees illegally. There are thousands of them mainly in the construction industry and hotels

3) Introduce fines for those parents who do not send children to school (fines should be paid directly from their benefits)

4) Learn from the past and do not make mistakes which the UK made in education in the last 30 years. He seems he has an obsession to repeat the UK failure in Malta…..

In the long term the result is that those ‘natives’ (i.e. non-foreigners) who do not care to improve themselves just have another excuse as to why they cannot get a job.

Their sense of entitlement, just because they are ‘sons of the soil,’ increases without them feeling any responsibility to invest in their own education.