Wage supplement The COVID Wage Supplement provides the employee with a basic wage covers to address the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to simplify administrative processes funds will be forwarded to employers who will be obliged to guarantee that the COVID Wage Supplement as established below is forwarded to the employee.
Full-time employees of enterprises operating in sectors that suffered drastically due to the COVID-19 pandemic or had to temporarily suspend operations on the order of the Superintendent of Public Health will be entitled to up to five days’ salary based on a monthly wage of €800. This includes all self-employed. Part-time employees will be eligible €500 per month. Annex A contains the list of sectors by NACE.
Full-time employees of enterprises in other adversely affected sectors (Annex B), including wholesale, manufacturing, and warehousing will be entitled to one days’ salary per week equivalent to €160 per month. Part-time employees will be eligible for one day’s salary per week, equivalent to €100 per month. In the case of Gozo based enterprises, this will increase to two days’ salary per week equivalent to €320 per month for full-time employees, and €200 per month for part-time employees. Annex B contains the list of sectors by NACE.
In the case of self-employed in other adversely affected sectors (Annex B) who have employees will be entitled to two-days’ salary per week equivalent to €320 per month.
Self-employed based in Gozo operating in other adversely affected sectors (Annex B) will be entitled to €320 per month. This will increase to €480, for those self-employed who employ staff, and the employees will be entitled to 2 days salary calculated on €800 a month. It is understood that in various instances when the operations are completely closed down due to COVID measures taken by Government. employees might be asked not to attend to work. In such cases an employee supported through this measure cannot be asked to take unpaid leave and the employer is obliged to pass on, as a minimum, the €800 wage subsidy less the employee’s national insurance contribution and government taxes to the employee.
In certain instance if there is an agreement with the Department Of Industrial And Employment Relations, employees may be required to work a four or three day week, in these instance the COVID Wage Supplement would still be allocated in accordance with the parameters established above.
Information is taken from Malta Enterprise website on 30th March 2020 Link to wage supplement online application form: https://covid.maltaenterprise.com/wagesupplement Quarantine Leave Employers who have or had a member of their staff (including themselves) on mandatory quarantine leave in accordance with the directives of the Superintendent of Public Health is entitled to a one-off lump sum grant of €350.
The grant is also applicable for members of staff who had to quarantine themselves in view of possible contact with individuals who were directly at risk of infection, such as living in the same dwelling or in the same workplace.
This measure only covers grants for full-time employees
Information is taken from Malta Enterprise website on 30th March 2020 Link to quarantine leave application form: https://covid.maltaenterprise.com/quarantineleave  |
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