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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 5 AUGUST 2020 Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine or partly cloudy Visibility Good Wind North to Northwest force 4 or 5 becoming force 5 locally TODAY TOMORROW Crossword Weather ACROSS 1) Salome's royal audience 6) Capture 11) No longer is 14) Catlike 15) Bermuda or Vidalia 16) Halloween mo. 17) Rustic hobby 19) Miner's find 20) Bank contents 21) More benevolent 23) Northbound, on most maps 26) Like Columbus, by birth 27) Icelandic coins 28) Up-to-date 29) Breath contents 30) Purple Heart, e.g. 32) Cordage fiber 35) Aria, e.g. 37) Alarm clock, at times 39) Cathedral recess 40) Create, as a scholarship 42) Chart anew 44) Mozart's "L'_ del Cairo" 45) Tremble with cold or fear 47) "Wide to the right!" 49) Fast driver 51) Dracula and Basie 52) Police line 53) Key material 55) Rhyming boxing champ 56) Places of marvels, in fantasies 61) Deception 62) Banana oil, e.g. 63) Battery part 64)_ and don'ts 65) Back-to-health program, briefly 66) Fritter away DOWN 1) "Hee_" 2) "I" problem 3) Copacabana site 4) "The_ and the Sea" 5) Good form 6) Achy 7) Deadly sin 8) Three, on sundials 9) Spaced out 10) They might backfire 11) It may help stir the batter 12) Farm measures 13) About 1 .3 cubic yards 18) President Jackson 22) Bucket wheel used for irrigation 23) Authoritative proclamation 24) Petrel bird with saw-toothed bills 25) Baseball championship 26) Artificial human of Jewish folklore 28) Creator 31) Risk taker 33) English race place 34) Investigation aids 36) _ and aahed 38) Ill will 41) Surviving spouse 43) Relief measure of Elizabethan times 46) Veinlike 48) Neighbor of Brazil 49) Bring to a near-boil 50) Salk's conquest 53) "I had no_!" 54) Sentence part 57) Advanced degree? 58) Discouraging words 59) Banned bug-killer 60) "Comprende?" MAINLY SUNNY UV: 11 MAINLY SUNNY UV: 11 30 0 / 25 0 30 0 / 24 0 FEELS LIKE 32 0 FEELS LIKE 31 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS- - - - - - - - - - - I) Man of La Mancha 6) Pago Pago's place 11) Two-way radios 14) Hacienda building block 15) Sans nuts, e.g. 16) Bauxite, e.g. 17) With awareness 19) Barely bite 20) Some billiard shots 21) Cable outlet? 23) Plaintiff, usually 26) Possessive pronoun 27) Bermuda wear 28) Lapwings 30) Kind of cu r ve, in math 31) Small canary 32) Keyboard word 35) Conclude 36) Imitating FOUR JAILBIRDS 1 s 2 E 3N 40 S R 6 s 1 A D 0 B E 1 1 i : 0 N s C 1 8 1 0 A R 0 2 � 2 c u s 2 $ H 0 I N R 5 3 c b N S L A T G R I R E 38) Cataract site 39) "Not a moment_ soon!" 40) Everybody's opposite 41) Un reseen difficulty 42) Word-processing shortcuts 44) Hitchcock thriller 46) Control, as expenses 48) Above all the rest? 49) Kind of nerve 50) Like a major artery 52) Hawaii give-away 53) Game show players 58) Australian cousin of the ostrich 59) "E pluribus unum," e.g. 60) Downloadable novel 6 J) Canyon ature 62) Raise high-rises 63) Cheer l little ear l 7A � 90 1 A L A I u s M s E I s R 3� I � C A L L E S b R T A L T E s T A S N I N B 0 C T I T R I E � y A H s 0 T E p E G 0 T 5 7 S K y DOWN I) Bunt on a scorecard, sometimes 2) Tokyo, fonnerly 3) "Oui ou_?" 4) Hard to grasp 5) Put in new actors 6) Wild animal trail 7) Class of '97 member, now 8) The "M" in E=MC2 9) Painter's medium JO) What some may try once J J) Agreement, harmony or compatibility 12) Pipe type 13) School mos. 18) Fits, snits or ries 22) Fido's doc 23) Black ink item 24) Coarse twilled cotton bric 25) Owned apartment 26) Ashley, to Mary-Kate 28) Unskilled workers 29) Ashtabula's lake 3 I) "Beat it, fly" 33) Asian nannies 34) Sired, in the Bible 36) Completely surround 37) Ears that can't hear 4 J) Plans for courses 43) "Gimme_!" (Auburn cheer) 44) Butter units 45) Put on the ballot 46) Desk-drawer item 4 7) Varnish resin 48) 1545 council site 50) Get the pot going 51) Ear-related 54) Dinghy driver 55) Word in several Commandments 56) "Sesame Street" watcher 57) "Ole Buttermilk_" June 14th, 2020 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Salome's royal audience 6) Capture 11) No longer is 14) Catlike 15) Bermuda or Vidalia 16) Halloween mo. 1 7) Rustic hobby 19) Miner's find 20) Bank contents 21) More benevolent 23) Northbound, on most maps 26) Like Columbus, by birth 27) Icelandic coins 28) Up-to-date 29) Breath contents 30) Purple Heart, e.g. 32) Cordage fiber 35) Aria, e.g. 37) Alarm clock, at times WO IS ME 14 17 27 29 35 52 55 61 39) Cathedral recess 40) Create, as a scholarship 42) Chart anew 44) Mozart's "L' _ del Cairo" 45) Tremble with cold or ar 47) "Wide to the right!" 49) Fast driver 51) Dracula and Basie 52) Police line 53) Key material 55) Rhyming boxing champ 56) Places of marvels, in ntasies 61) Deception 62) Banana oil, e.g. 63) Battery part 64)_ and don'ts 65) Back-to-health program, briefly 66) Fritter away 8 9 10 33 DOWN I) "Hee_" 2) "I" problem 3) Copacabana site 4) "The_ and the Sea" 5) Good rm 6) Achy 7) Deadly sin 8) Three, on sundials 9) Spaced out 10) They might backfire 11) It may help stir the batter 12) Farm measures 13) About 1 .3 cubic yards 18) President Jackson 22) Bucket wheel used r irrigation 23) Authoritative proclamation 24) Petrel bird with saw-toothed bills 25) Baseball championship 26) Artificial human of Jewish lklore 28) Creator 3 l) Risk taker 33) English race place 34) Investigation aids 36) _ and aahed 38) Ill will 41) Surviving spouse 43) Relief measure of Elizabethan times 46) Veinlike 48) Neighbor of Brazil 49) Bring to a near-boil 50) Salk's conquest 53) "I had no_!" 54) Sentence part 57) Advanced degree? 58) Discouraging words 59) Banned bug-killer 60) "Comprende?" June 12th, 2020 3LAURA CALLEJA THE dismissal and subsequent "bogus self-employment" of Maltese pilots was il- legitimate and must be annulled, the Euro- pean Cockpit Association (ECA) said. The ECA, which represents over 40,000 pilots in Europe, claimed an attempt by the Maltese government of undermining Air Malta pilots by flying another nation- ally-owned airline, Malta MedAir, was promoting "precarious atypical aircrew employment." "The treatment of Air Malta's pilots is a stark example of COVID-19 being used as an excuse to undermine worker's rights, and must not be tolerated," ECA CA Pres- ident Jon Horne said. At the beginning of June, Air Malta said it was going ahead with the redundancies of 69 pilots after talks with the union failed. The company said that talks with ALPA, the airline's pilot union, on measures to avoid redundancies in order to safeguard its ongoing sustainability and viability, failed. Horne accused Malta of becoming "a flag of convenience and sponsoring social engi- neering through precarious broker-agency set-ups, bogus self-employment". "COVID-19 is hitting workers across Europe very hard. Aviation is one of the sectors that suffer most. We urge the Mal- tese Government to resolve the issues with Air Malta, using EU funds and any other means available, in order to provide fair support for the duration of the crisis. We also call on the Government of Malta to ensure that the rights of workers, includ- ing pilots, are respected and that no op- portunistic behaviour threatening social sustainability is allowed," he said. The ECA said Air Malta had not con- ducted a proper consultation process as required by EU legislation, and that jobs were replaced by "bogus" self-employed crews recruited by a UK agency following Air Malta's decision to transfer charter op- erations to Malta MedAir. The association highlighted that in oth- er jurisdictions such as the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium, judges have annulled the dismissals when employers have not respected statutory collective dismissal procedures. It cited that judges are obligat- ed to respect the European transfer of un- dertaking provisions that forbid dismissals during transfers and guarantee the respect of employee rights enshrined in collective agreements. "It is not acceptable that the Maltese au- thorities themselves facilitate replacing di- rect employment with precarious atypical jobs via foreign broker agencies through self-employment," ECA Secretary General Philip von Schöppenthau said. European Cockpit Association demands recall of dismissal of 69 Air Malta pilots