ACT No. XXXI of 2025 AN ACT to further amend the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, Cap. 452.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

26th September, 2025

ACT No. XXXI of 2025

AN ACT to further amend the Employment and Industrial Relations

Act, Cap. 452.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

(1) The short title of this Act is the Employment and Short title and

Industrial Relations (Amendment No. 2) Act, 2025 and this Act shall commencement.

be read and construed as one with the Employment and Industrial Cap. 452.

Relations Act, hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act".

(2) The provisions of this Act shall come into force on 1st

October 2025.

In article 2 of the principal Act immediately after the definition Amendment of

"temporary work agency" there shall be added the following new article

principal Act.

definition

""third-country national" shall have the same

meaning as assigned to it in article 2 of the Immigration

Act;".

In the proviso to sub-article (1) of article 11 of the principal Amendment of

Act the words "employee concerned." shall be substituted by the words article

principal Act.

"employee concerned:" and immediately thereafter there shall be

added the following new proviso

"Provided further that any wages earned by or

payable to a third-country national shall be paid exclusively by

means of a bank transfer to an account held in the name of the

employee or through an electronic transfer facilitated by an

accredited and licensed financial institution. This requirement

shall apply to all third-country nationals whose employment

commences on 1st October 2025 or subsequently.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 379 of the

24th September, 2025.

DAVID AGIUS

Deputy Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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