Cosmopolitan Malta

Malta does not need to become cosmopolitan by importing cheap, unskilled, third-country nationals to work in Malta.

Instead, our Maltese labour force should be better utilised by shedding off the thousands of unskilled workers employed politically, uneconomically and inefficiently during the last five years with government departments, parastatal corporations and quangos. Quangos are administrative bodies created outside the civil service with senior members appointed by the government.

These cushy, politically-em­ployed workers should be put on the Jobsplus unemployment register, given unemployment benefits, trained to become skilled in the trades on demand at the moment and in the future, using EU funds and employed in the private sector where they will be efficiently and economically employed. But most importantly they should then be paid adequately, not with the minimum wage.

However, this is not wanted by those who employed them. Although the above is economic sense, politically it is not wanted as they mean votes during election time. Many of these workers do next to nothing except sign in and out daily.

The idea of the need to import unskilled, third country nationals is...