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National Minimum Wage National Standard Order, 2024
Table of Provisions (6)
Statutory Text (6 Articles)
L.N. 342 of 2024
EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT
(CAP. 452)
National Minimum Wage National Standard Order, 2024
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4 of the
Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for
employment and industrial relations, on the recommendation of the
Employment Relations Board, has made the following order:-
(1) The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage Citation and
commencement.
National Standard Order, 2024.
This order shall come into force on the 1 st January, 2025.
(2)
In this order, unless the context otherwise requires
Interpretation.
"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act; Cap. 452.
"Agreement" means the National Agreement on the
Minimum Wage Recommendations by the Low Wage
Commission signed on the 25 th October 2023 between the
Government, the trade unions and organisations of employers as
represented on the Malta Council for Economic and Social
Development.".
The national minimum wage per week related to a normal National
working week shall be in accordance with the said Agreement as minimum wage.
follows
Age eighteen (18) years and over ………………€221.78
Age seventeen (17) years ……………………….€215.00
Under seventeen (17) years ……………………..€212.16
The national minimum wage of part-time employees shall Part-time
be calculated pro rata at the same hourly rate of a comparable whole- employees.
time employee as applicable in accordance with the minimum wage of
the relevant Wage Regulation Order, or in cases where a Wage
Regulation Order is not applicable, at an hourly rate not below the
National Standard Minimum Wage applicable, as determined in
accordance with the preceding article and divided by forty (40).
Where any Wages Council Wage Regulation Order applies
to any employee, the wages payable to such employee in respect of
2025 shall not be less than those established by such Wages Council
Wage Regulation Order applicable for 2024, adjusted for cost of living
by any increases of wages declared to be generally applicable to all
whole-time employees in terms of article 8 of the Act, or by any wage
increases for cost of living established by any national standard order
applicable in respect of 2025.
€0.18