Another resignation, another judicial protest, over ‘irresponsible behaviour’ by Sadeen

An Englishman who swapped ‘a steady employment with the Sheffield Hallam University’ for an enticing post as ‘assistant director admissions’ with the American University of Malta has resorted to a legal remedy after his new job ended up in smoke. Jordan Daniel Aird filed a judicial protest on Wednesday wherein he explained how he had clinched the new job after a Skype interview, with a written proposal for a three-year contract against an annual salary of €45,000 effective from July 24, 2017, following suit. Resigning his employment in England, Mr Aird travelled to Malta, first reporting for work at the AUM on August 1, 2017, only to be told that his contract of employment, although drafted, had not yet been signed by the company. Read: Keep quiet, AUM tells dismissed lecturers After being assured that the deed would be signed soon, Mr Aird went on a pre-booked holiday about which the company ‘was well aware’, only to discover, upon his return, that all admissions-related work had ended in his lap since Chiara Battistelli, the director admissions, was no longer working at the AUM, her employment having been ‘terminated with immediate effect’. When confronting AUM Provost John...