COVID-19: Maltese Employment Law & Quarantine Leave
Government Measures to Assist Employers and Safeguard Jobs
A legal notice issued on the 13 March 2020 amends the Malta employment law to include a special leave to cover any mandatory quarantine period an employee may need to adhere to in line with the Government’s measures to restrain the spread of COVID-19 in Malta. An employee, therefore, is now entitled to quarantine leave without loss of wages in such cases where the employee is legally obliged to abide by quarantine orders. Quarantine leave is over and above the vacation leave entitlement.
This legal notice is an important development, clarifying how time-off work of an employee due to quarantine measures in place should be treated at law.
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