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Employers are reminded that due to a change in the National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act (Cap 252), employees now receive extra time off to compensate for public holidays that fall at a weekend …

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The Minister for Social Justice Michael Falzon has announced that those with serious disabilities will not longer be required to be interviewed by the Medical Board at age 16 in order to receive their adult disability allowances …

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The police have begun to step up the imposing of heavy fines on those breaching lockdown and face-mask rules …

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The newly announced wage supplement scheme has removed the previous Annex system and introduced a tiered calculation basis for the supplement based on businesses’ VAT returns as compared to the same period in 2019 …

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The new gross monthly minimum wage for full-time workers aged 18+ is now €784 …

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Eligible private businesses will now be able to continue to benefit from up to €800 (US$946) in government aid per worker until at least March 2021 …

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The COVID-19 wage subsidy scheme has been extended until the end of October 2020 …

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The facility for applying for work permits by third-country nationals has now been resumed …

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Employers retaining records concerning “next of kin” should now recognise that, under Maltese law, two people are considered to form a family unit simply because they cohabit …

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A Good Samaritan Bill has now been approved, after being stuck in committee for 2 years following its second reading in Parliament …

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The wage supplement scheme has now been extended to cover May and June 2020 …

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Expatriates earning at or over €52,000 have until the end of 2025 to apply for a revised 15% flat-rate tax band for employment in R&D, design, analytical or innovation activities, provided the activities are carried out in Malta …

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Although it was announced in the 2020 Budget issued last October that annual leave entitlement was to be raised by one day to 27 days a year (presumably to partly compensate for three lost public holidays falling at a weekend) no change has yet been announced to the “National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act” …

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The average annual basic salary of employees for Q2 2019 was €19,484 (US$21,654) …

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Although the working-age adult population (AWP) of the European Union remains fairly stable, individual countries are experiencing significant changes in their populations …

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