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MIA launches
call for tenders
for Apron X
investment
Council of Europe:
Malta must prosecute
more money
laundering cases
PAUL COCKS
NO employees of Farsons
Group have been laid off dur-
ing the COVID-19 pandemic
despite the business suffering
heavy losses due to the near-
ly complete slowdown in the
tourism, catering and enter-
tainment sectors, BusinessTo-
day has learned.
Numerous messages on so-
cial media groups claimed that
a number of Farsons staff had
been laid off as the group strug-
gles to come to terms with busi-
ness dropping drastically fol-
lowing the onset of COVID-19.
But Farsons Group CEO Nor-
man Aquilina vehemently de-
nied these claims, insisting no
employees had lost their jobs
because of the pandemic.
Farsons Group CEO insists the Board
and management had taken extraordinary
measures to ensure no jobs were lost
despite revenue and profit taking a huge
hit amid the pandemic
Farsons dismisses redundancy claims,
full staff kept on despite COVID losses
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