PL Responds To Alex Borg’s Rejection Of Salary Increase

The Labour Party has accused Opposition Leader Alex Borg recent statements of recejecint the salary adjustments affecting politicians and civil statements as hypocritical.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the party said that if Borg ‘genuinely opposed the increases, he should have refused his own pay rise from the first day he became a Member of Parliament.’

The Labour Party said that the only government to ever grant itself a ministerial pay rise was a previous Nationalist administration, ‘which awarded ministers an additional €500 per week while asking families to make financial sacrifices.’

It added that the current changes are not political raises but part of a wider adjustment to civil service pay scales, from which 33,000 public sector workers are benefiting following an agreement reached with social partners earlier this year.

The party accused Borg of misleading the public by implying that only ministers had received a pay rise and of exaggerating the amount.

According to Labour, the Opposition Leader and all MPs have received the same proportional increase.

In response to Borg’s claim that the €1,700 raise for executive politicians was “secretive”, Labour said the change was part of the collective agreement signed with unions, ensuring gradual increases for all public employees until 2030.

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