One-time payment for 'anomalous situations' suffered by workers as long as 40 years ago
An undefined group of public sector workers with complaints about “anomalous or unfavourable situations” are to receive a one-time payment, even if their claims are legally baseless.
The announcement, made in a Tuesday afternoon press release issued jointly by the Finance and Family Ministries, was thin on details and did not specify which workers would be eligible for the payment, although they include former members of the labour corps who, after January 1979, were transferred to government corporations or other entities.
The statement did not explain on what basis their claims would be accepted or how much money would be handed out, but it would cover the period until the workers retired or left the public service.
Details will be published in the Government Gazette on Friday, May 24 – one day before the European Parliament and local council elections.
The payment was agreed upon by ministers during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday and will follow a similar scheme for aggrieved members of the labour corps who were transferred to government departments in the late 1970s.
It concerns claims made by other workers with “particular circumstances” which were “to a certain point...