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Labour mobility within the EU
The European Commission publishes each year a report on labour mobility trends in EU and EFTA countries. The recently published report for 2019 highlights that intra-EU mobility continued to grow…
Right to disconnect – What next?
Any legislation on the right to disconnect must avoid creating grey areas, but at the same time must be flexible enough to safeguard workers without impacting productivity levels. UHM Voice…
EU tax haven blacklist is not catching the worst offenders
A resolution pushing for the “confusing and ineffective” system in use for drawing up the EU list of tax havens to be changed has been adopted by the European Parliament.…
A mockery of a Bill
A Bill tabled last summer which was supposedly aimed to give a legal basis for the appointment of persons of trust was recently shot down by the Standards Commissioner who…
‘Is it time for quotas on foreign workers?’ Finance Minister Clyde Caruana
With foreign workers totalling almost 70,000 which is close to a third of the entire workforce, Finance and Employment Minister Clyde Caruana has floated to idea of introducing quotas to…