Joseph Cuschieri should be immediately removed as CEO of Project Green, PN says
Joseph Cuschieri, who was appointed by Robert Abela as head of Project Green, has been found guilty by the Industrial Tribunal of committing an injustice against an employee while serving as CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), ruini
Joseph Cuschieri, who was appointed by Robert Abela as head of Project Green, has been found guilty by the Industrial Tribunal of committing an injustice against an employee while serving as CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), ruining the employee's career, the Nationalist Party said in a statement Tuesday.
Cuschieri, who has since moved from MFSA to CEO of Project Green and who the PN said enjoys a salary of more than €86,000, was found guilty of causing undue hardship to this employee and his family in an illegal and unjust manner.
"In a strongly worded decision, the Industrial Tribunal condemned the illegal manner in which Joseph Cuschieri acted towards this employee. The Tribunal concluded that the employee was suddenly dismissed from his job because he was performing his duties correctly and did not allow Joseph Cuschieri to breach rules and laws," the PN said.
To achieve justice, the Tribunal ordered the MFSA to pay a sum of €413,688 as compensation for the income lost by the employee during the years he had to wait for this decision, as well as for moral damages. It was also decided that the employee who suffered this injustice should be reinstated in his position within the MFSA.
Following this decision, which took five years to be delivered, Joseph Cuschieri's position as CEO of Project Green is no longer tenable, the PN said. Minister Miriam Dalli must immediately remove Cuschieri, and if she does not, Prime Minister Robert Abela must dismiss him himself.
It is unacceptable for a high-ranking government official to remain in such a position. If he is not removed, Robert Abela will be perpetuating a culture of impunity in the country. He would be rewarding those who do wrong, break the law, and ruin people's lives, the PN said.
The MFSA must immediately take the necessary legal steps to ensure that the damages rightly owed to the employee are not paid out of public taxes but by those who blatantly and shamelessly committed this illegality.
The MFSA Board of Governors, as well as the Executive Committee, cannot remain silent in the face of such injustice, the PN said. "Malta's reputation in the financial sector has already suffered significant blows and cannot afford more scandals. The primary interest of those running the MFSA should be the public's interest, not that of the Prime Minister's friend or his Chief of Staff," the party said.
The statement was signed by MPs Jerome Caruana Cilia and Graham Bencini.
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