Central level
The Ministry for Education and Employment is responsible for:
- The Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan – an initiative aimed at providing young people without employment an adequate education and training assistance;
- Offering a wide variety of higher education and training opportunities to enable everyone to get ahead in life and develop themselves professionally;
- To continue to formulate and implement effective policies on education and employment, working closely with stakeholders in the field.
The National Employment Authority is responsible for:
- Investigating and adjudicating complaints regarding employment and training services provided by Jobsplus;
- Hearing appeals as provided for in the Employment and Training Services Act.
Jobsplus (previously the Employment and Training Corporation), Malta's public employment service, is responsible for:
- Providing and maintaining an employment service to assist persons to find suitable employment and to assist employers to find suitable employees;
- Registering persons seeking employment and to interview and evaluate them;
- Assisting persons seeking employment by guidance and advice on the choice of employment, and training and retraining;
- Obtaining from employers information on vacancies and on requirements to be met by the employees;
- Referring to available employment persons with suitable skills, aptitudes and physical capacity;
- Collecting and analysing information about the situation of the labour market and probable changes;
- Tendering advice to the Minister relating to the employment or training of workers.
Regional level
The Regional Councils are responsible for:
- The provision of assistance to local councils
within the region to benefit and successfully manage programmes which are
funded by the European Union.
Local level
The Local Councils are responsible for:
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The promotion of an entrepreneurial policy and to
encourage activities which promote trade and to facilitate Council procedures
to lessen bureaucracy so that commercial activities can improve the services
they provide.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry for Education and Employment
National
Employment Authority
Jobsplus
Source
Constitution of Malta, 21
September 1964
Employment
and Training Services Act, 26 November 2019
Employment and Industrial Relations Act, 27 December 2002
Local Government Act, 23 July 1993
Ministry for Education and Employment
National Employment Policy (2014)
Jobsplus
