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An amendment to make it possible to enforce a law that makes it compulsory on employers of more than 20 people to include 2% of disabled people in their workforce or pay a contribution was moved in Parliament on Tuesday by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana. The Nationalist Opposition said it will be supporting the amendment. Moving the second reading of a bill on the employment of people with disability, Caruana said that although it was currently compulsory for employers to include disabled people in their workforce, the clause was not enforceable and many employers ignored it. The amendment wi...

Godfrey Farrugia tells committee chair Silvio Parnis it is MPs’ duty to create non-judgemental platforms for discussion on abortion

Parents who have adopted children from India have appealed for compassion, understanding and support after the tragic story of a Maltese man who contracted COVID-19 as he went to pick up his newly-adopted daughter from New Delhi and died just before he was medically evacuated to Malta. “What people don’t understand is that we go to pick up our children. The pandemic will not stop us. If anything, it will make you want to get your child home safely. They say you will go to hell and back for your children. A pandemic won’t stop a parent,” Nicolette Borg Vassallo says.

The reform of pre-1995 rents being carried out by the government protects tenants from eviction or rent increases that they cannot afford, while also handing justice to landlords, Prime Minister Robert Abela told parliament on Monday. He said that the reform made by the previous government in 2009, on paper, offered protection from eviction and rent rises to tenants, but successive court judgements found it breached the rights of the landlords, rendering the so-called reform not worth the paper it was written on. Tenants had actually had neither the certainty of not being evicted nor the assu...

PN says Labour Party must apologise for wrongdoing The Nationalist Party says that while an apology will not be enough, it is the first step in the right direction 6 April 2021, 2:59pm by Laura Calleja The Labour Party should apologise for government officials' wrongdoing, Nationalist Party candidate Ivan Bartolo insisted. However, he warned that an apology may not be enough but was a start. Speaking at a press conference alongside PN candidate Paula Mifsud Bonnici, Bartolo said an apology was the first step in the party taking accountability for their wrongdoing and seeking to correct ...