Tag: MEA
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UPDATED: Momentum adds mixed appraisal to ADPD’s and Employer’s diverging views on Budget 2026
Update: Momentum has issued a more mixed reaction, welcoming compassionate social measures such as the seven-day bereavement fund for parents, increased grants for births and adoptions, and higher stipends for Gozitan students. However, the group criticised the €4.66 COLA as insufficient amid rising living costs and lamented the continued inequity faced by thousands of pre-1962…
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Budget 2025 Reactions: Pensions, Tourism, and Education in Focus
The Forum Unions Maltin, Malta’s trade union confederation, voiced concerns over Budget 2025’s new pension requirements for workers born in 1976 and later. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana, in his Monday budget presentation, announced that this cohort will now need to complete 42 years of social security contributions–up from 41–to qualify for a full pension. Previously,…