NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL STANDARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.136

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL

STANDARD ORDER

1 st January, 2025

LEGAL NOTICE 342 of 2024.

The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage

National Standard Order.

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations

Act;

"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 working week shall be in accordance with the said Agreement

as 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 be calculated pro rata at the same hourly rate of a comparable

whole-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.

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL STANDARD