Seven power station officials complain of years of discrimination

Seven senior officials at Delimara power station have filed a judicial protest, claiming to have suffered years of discrimination and injustice.

They said they had suffered a “hostile attitude” and discriminatory treatment at the hands of Johann Zammit, manager and later executive chairperson of International Energy Services Centre Limited, an Enemalta subsidiary.

The Principal Control and Instrumentation Officers (PCIOs) explained that they were transferred to Engineering Resources Ltd and then “loaned” to International Energy Services Centre Limited and assigned to the Delimara power station following a restructuring at Enemalta and the shutdown of the Marsa power station in 2014.

They claimed that since 2015, engineer Zammit adopted an “openly hostile” attitude towards them, in a manner that was “manifestly discriminatory.”

Ludric Vella, Joseph Cassar, Sinclair Tabone, Edmund Vella, Justin Abela, Ivan Scicluna and Reno Tonna said they were prohibited from driving their vehicles into the work premises, were handed work clothes and safety helmets that were different in colour to those of fellow officers and were constrained to use their personal mobile phones for work...