Two major parties contested the general election in Malta on 9 March 2013, the ruling Nationalist Party (PN [1]) and the Partit Laburista (PL [2]). Both promised in their campaigns that if elected they would give parents the right to use their sick leave entitlement to care for sick children or
An election was called in Malta after its centre-right Nationalist Party (PN [1]) government failed by one vote to push its 2013 budget through parliament. Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi told journalists the Maltese parliament would be dissolved on 7 January 2013, and an election held on 9 March 2013
The Maltese Government [1] presented its budget for 2013 on 28 November 2012. This was the final budget of this legislature because the Government’s five-year term of office is due to come to an end. The main features of the budget were a cut in tax rates for wage earners whose income was below €60
Collective bargaining in Malta is conducted on a single employer basis at enterprise level. The only exception is in the civil service, where collective bargaining is conducted with unions representing different categories of employees in the sector.
Towards the end of 2010, the Maltese government was holding negotiation and consultation meetings with the EU Commission to solve the financial crisis of Air Malta, which was on the brink of bankruptcy (ERM factsheet ID16985). The Maltese government had to submit a first draft of a restructuring
Caritas Malta [1], a non-government organisation backed by the Maltese Catholic Church, carried out a study to find the minimum budget for a decent standard of living based on the cost of a basket of essential items. The study focused on low-income households in three categories: [1] http://www
For 10 years a substantial number of undocumented immigrants have been arriving in Malta from sub-Saharan Africa. Crossing the Mediterranean, often from Libya, in search of a better life, they have generally been granted refugee status with temporary leave to stay on humanitarian grounds. They then
Members of Malta’s security services such as the police, soldiers, civil protection workers and prison guards are banned from joining a trade union by the Employment and Industrial Relations Act (215Kb PDF) [1] (EIRA), and by other legislation governing their terms of employment. However, Malta’s
It has become established practice in Malta that before the annual budget is presented, a meeting is held between the Minister of Finance and the social partners, during which each organisation makes proposals about the measures it would like to see included in the budget.
According to the annual report published by the Registrar of Trade Unions on 30 September 2011, trade union membership in Malta increased by 483 in absolute terms between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2011. This represents an increase of 0.6% over the previous year. Based on the figure of 148,546 for the