Update – Malta Covid-19 – Special Quarantine Leave

SPECIAL QUARANTINE LEAVE TO BE PAID BY EMPLOYER IN CASES OF MANDATORY QUARANTINE  

L.N. 62 of 2020  

L.N. 63 of 2020 

• The Superintendent of Public Health has published the "Minimum Special Leave Entitlements (Amendment) Regulations,  2020"; 
• These Regulations amend the "Minimum Special Leave Entitlement Regulations" (S.L.452.101), introducing a new PAID "Quarantine Leave" for all employees. 
• This Quarantine Leave applies to all employees, including those whose conditions are governed by a Wage Regulation Order (to whom the Minimum Special Leave Entitlement Regulations do not typically apply).  
• "Quarantine leave" is now defined as leave to be granted "without loss of wages" in such cases where the employee "is legally obliged to abide by a quarantine order confining the employee to a certain area or to certain premises as determined by the Superintendent of Public Health under the  Public Health Act or by any public authority under any other law".