National courts must carry out an assessment in each case to satisfy themselves that such contracts are not misused by employers

The General Court, however, suspends the effects of the annulment for a period of two months in order to allow the Council the opportunity to correct the irregularities identified

Over the past year the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman had been investigating a number of complaints lodged by members of the public who claimed payment for damages allegedly sustained by their vehicles due to road surface defects, which complainants claimed should have been addressed by Transport Malta.  A number of meetings were held with authority officials and numerous correspondence was exchanged where it was agreed that a procedure and criteria to be adopted in processing such claims needed to be determined, formalised and published by the authority.

Lettre d'information de l'AOMF - juillet 2014

Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer stressed that the report on human rights for 2013 was the most extensive in all 20 years of the office's existence as she handed over the report to Speaker Janko Veber. She noted that her office had drafted 150 recommendations, and that most of the violations were registered in welfare.