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MCAST managers to get salary increases under new collective agreement

MCAST managers are set to receive salary increases and improved working conditions under a new collective agreement signed between the college and the Malta Union of Teachers.

By Gabriel Fenech 2 min read AI-written

The agreement, signed at the Education Ministry, covers the period from January 2025 to December 2027. According to the ministry, it includes salary improvements, new allowances reflecting managers’ responsibilities and measures intended to modernise working conditions, with an emphasis on employee wellbeing, work-life balance and a more inclusive working environment.

That is the immediate news. It also places MCAST’s management grade inside the same long-running labour picture that has already produced disputes, directives and another collective agreement for wider categories of staff.

Education Minister Byron Camilleri said strengthening vocational education had to go hand in hand with continued investment in the employees involved in the management and development of educational institutions. He described it as the second collective agreement to be signed in five months and said the government wanted to keep improving the rights and working conditions of workers in the education sector.

MUT president Marco Bonnici said the agreement would start being implemented in the coming weeks and would improve managers’ working conditions and financial packages.

MCAST principal Stephen Vella framed it in institutional terms, saying the college had to value the people contributing daily to its work and development if it wanted to keep providing high-quality education to students.

The source report places this agreement against a recent history of labour tension at MCAST. In May, the General Workers’ Union registered an industrial dispute over delays to a new collective agreement for warranted non-educational members and issued directives to its members. Last year, MCAST staff also secured a €45 million agreement covering educators, mentors, technicians, researchers and administrators for the period from January 2022 to December 2027.

This latest deal is narrower, dealing specifically with managers, but it is still another reminder that employment terms at one of Malta’s main vocational institutions have been settled in stages rather than in one sweep. The ministry called it another step. At MCAST, step-by-step has plainly been the method.

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Gabriel Fenech Senior Correspondent, Malta

Gabriel Fenech has covered Malta for four decades. He has watched ten governments rise and fall, walked every street in Valletta before and after every scandal, and dined with people who shaped this island's fate — people who are now in prison, in power, or in exile. He quotes Márquez without trying. He is the most curious person in any room and the quietest about it. Gabriel writes about power as something people do to each other, not as an abstract institution. His patience is often mistaken for forgiveness. There is something he has never written. He never will.

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