Hybrid work and flexible hours promised by a Nationalist government

Oct 6 2021

The Nationalist Party has promised to grant the rights to every employee for temporal and spatial flexibility at work should it be elected to government. In a proposal aimed to achieve better family-work life balance, the proposal would see that in agreement with employers, employees will be able to choose the starting and finishing time of work as well as a number of days working from home. Employers would also be obliged to observe such measures and be able to offer explanations in writing should it be refused.

As long as productivity levels are met, the measures should apply, with PN MP Claudette Buttigieg stating that the party wants to keep people and the whole family at the centre of their politics. On her part, Marie Claire Zammit from Moviment Nisa PN stated that the party is promising under equality and facilitating a healthier family-work balance through such proposals. She added that a PN government promises a tax rebate to all employers who wish invest to improve furniture ergonomics and other services like Wifi at the home of the employees during remote work.

Yet another proposal by the PN involves the right for 10 paid keeping in touch days for anyone taking maternal/paternal/adoptive leave. PN employment spokesperson Jason Azzopardi stated that this would enable employees to keep in touch with ongoing training programmes and that protection for pregnant women would start the moment that a pregnancy is disclosed to the employer.

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6 things you have to accept sooner or later | by Ed’s Common Sense

Oct 6 2021

Denial is all about attempting to protect oneself by refusing to accept certain truths about life but often presents an amount of problems, including those related to mental. Acceptance of certain facts will not only set you free psychologically, but lead you down a trail of positive thinking and brighter results. That said, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Edward Curmi has compiled a list of 6 things you have to accept sooner or later.

Dr. Edward Curmi is also the author of 2 self-help books titled Ed’s Common Sense.

1. Great relationships aren’t found. They are built. And you can never stop building

2. Unfortunately not all friendships last. It’s ok if we grow out of our childhood friends.

3. Ironically, the best moments in our lives are the simplest and most common ones.

4. Money and success will never buy you happiness. Meaningful relationships will do the trick

5. No matter how hard and talented you are luck always plays a huge part

6. Most of your dreams might never come true but they will help you in many other strange ways

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New primary health care centre set to open in March in Rabat, Gozo

Oct 6 2021

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne has revealed that a primary health care centre is set to open in Rabat, Gozo in March. Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, the minister said that the government has over the past three years opened 14 health clinics across Malta and Gozo. The aim is to open a health clinic in every town, with Fearne noting that in treating patients in their own locality it makes things more comfortable for the patient.

It also speeds up the process of early diagnosis and makes it cheaper than treatment in a hospital. Fearne pointed to how the government opened health care centres in Valletta and Kalkara, with a new centre set to open in Santa Lucia in November and centres for Marsascala and Ta Giorni currently in progress.

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3-year-old girl forgotten in school bus left for hours in garage

Oct 6 2021

The Education Ministry has launched an investigation into an incident wherein a 3-year-old girl was left alone in a garage after having been forgotten on a school bus. The 3-year-old, named Marija, was meant to go to Klabb 3-16 after school but instead ended up spending several hours crying in a locked garage. Her mother was notified of her missing daughter after finishing work after 4pm, with the school telling her she wasn’t at the club.

Marija was returned to her mother Bojana 30 minutes later, but no explanation was given except for the driver saying that ‘I’m only delivery.’ The Education Ministry told Lovin Malta that it was not aware of the incident and that Minister Justyne Caruana has given instructions for the case to be investigated. Marija, who went through the ordeal on her second day of school, was traumatised by the event, saying she spent around three hours screaming and crying in a dark and empty garage.

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