HSBC Malta staff stage sit-in strike as BBVA takeover threatens Maltese severance perks
# HSBC Malta staff stage sit-in strike over compensation linked to owner change Valletta’s Republic Street felt more like a union hall than a banking capital yesterday morning when 200 HSBC Malta employees walked off the job and staged a surprise sit-in inside the 1960s marble-clad lobby of the bank’s flagship branch. By 11 a.m….