Chief Executive Officer Josef Vella made the request in a letter to Principal Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar. The UĦM said while it firmly believes that this is a necessary measure to control the pandemic's spread, it also believes that other measures must accompany this directive. Proposed measures Any workplace within the public sector and public service must ensure that it is the norm for employees to work remotely from home and keep working from the premises only in exceptional circumstances which are justified Employees given remote working should not have deductions in their take-home pay On the other hand, in case whereby duties have to be carried out from the workplace the administration must create a roster comprising different bubbles, which do not mix together, and work must be assigned through a rotation system