COVID-19: Third Financial Package To Aid Businesses

This evening the Prime Minister Robert Abela announced a third set of measures applicable retrospectively from 9 March 2020 in order to aid businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

These measures include the following:

• A payment by the Government of a full salary of €800 to all workers, being either employees or self-employed persons who work in certain critical sectors which include, among others, wholesale, retail, accommodation, food and beverage, leasing of motor vehicles, entertainment, security and transport. Where the salary of any of these workers is more than €800 but less than €1200, the Prime Minister announces that it has been agreed that the employer will be paying the difference up till €1,200.