Full-time employment up by 5.9% in June 2022.

Nov 16 2022

Registered full-time employment increased by 5.9% in June 2022 over June 2021. Meanwhile, part-time employment as a primary job increased by 6%.

Jobsplus provided administrative information to the National Statistics Office, showing that over a period of 1 year until June 2022, the labour supply (excluding part time workers) increased by 5%.

This meant it reached 253,662. This was mainly attributed to the year on year increase in the full time register employment at 13,980 as well as a decrease in registered unemployment at 757.

Throughout June 2022, the accommodation and food services activist and the administrative and support service activities contributed mostly to the increase in employment at 2,577 and 1,802 respectively.

Registered full time employment in the private sector also increased by 13,908 persons to 201,576. Public sector full time employment increased by 72 people to 51,132.

The number of people registered as full time self employed increase by 706 when compared to June of 2021. The number of persons registered as employees increased by 13,274. Full time employment for males and females also spiked by 5.9% and 5.8% respectively.

Registered part time employment in June 2022 increased by 9.1% when compared to the previous year. The sectors that contributed to the overall increase were the professional, scientific and technical activities. This was followed by the transportation and storage sector.

Full statistics here.

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Union calls for Gozitan nurses to be priority at Gozo hospital

Nov 16 2022

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) has threatened industrial action if foreign nurses are employed with the Gozo General Hospital instead of Gozitans currently working in Malta.

The union is calling upon the government to transfer the Gozitan nurses currently deployed in Malta back to the sister island so as to avoid Steward Health Care employing foreign nurses.

The MUMN described the emergency and operating room services as mediocre, and revealed that this forced Steward Health Care to ask for the transfer of five nurses from Malta to Gozo.

The health ministry reportedly refused the transfer and this, the union said, will force SHC to employ third country nationals. This also goes against the agreement which MUMN has with the Health Ministry since Gozitan nurses have a right to be transferred to Gozo General Hospitals.

The union is calling for greater respect to be shown towards Gozitan residents and nurses and said that the ‘nice words during the election campaign by Gozitan MPs that the Labour Party would prioritise Gozitans working in Gozo was just a gimmick based on false pretences.’

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Love Island Malta to hit Maltese TV screens in May 2023

Nov 16 2022

The news of Malta getting its own spin-off of hit TV series ‘Love Island’ is not a premature April Fool’s Joke… it’s actually happening.

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The Maltese version of global phenomenon Love Island will start airing on TVM in May 2023, with local company ‘Media Exclusive Limited’ taking over local production in collaboration with ITV studios.

Set in a spectacular villa somewhere in the Maltese islands, Love Island Malta will welcome a number of single individuals for search for love in a race against the clock.

Love Island Malta is expected to attract younger audiences to Maltese television whilst still appealing to users from different generations.

Do you plan on watching Love Island Malta?

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Artemis: NASA launches most powerful ever built rocket to the moon

Artemis: NASA launches most powerful rocket ever built to the moon

Nov 16 2022

NASA have officially launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the moon on Wednesday, kicking off the space agency’s flagship program, Artemis.

The Space Launch System (SLS), towering at 32-storeys, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 01:47am with a record breaking 8.8 million pounds of thrust generated.

Fixed to the rocket was the Orion spaceship that will orbit Earth’s moon in a test run for later flights. This will then see the first woman and first person of colour to land on the moon by 2025.

Two previous attempts in August and September were aborted prior to launch because of technical difficulties. Now, the 25-day and 1.3 million mile trip marks NASA’s first few capable deep-space mission in 50 years.

The Orion spacecraft is expected to orbit around the moon for 6 days to collect data and allow mission controllers to assess the performance of the vessel.

America last sent astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo era, from 1969-1972. For mythology geeks, Apollo and Artemis are twin gods from the Greek Pantheon, with Orion being a huntsman just like Artemis.

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