If you employ people in the EU, one change in the Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) deserves your full attention: it flips who has to prove what in a pay discrimination case. The old rule vs. the new rule Before: If an employee believed they were being paid unfairly compared to a colleague doing equal work, the employee had to prove it. That's a hard bar to clear - employees rarely have access to their colleagues' salary data or the internal reasoning behind pay decisions

𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 in Malta have now been introduced through Legal Notice 173 of 2026, published on 5 June 2026. Over the past year, many of us have been hearing about this and attending excellent seminars and discussions based on the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Whilst these have provided valuable insights into what was coming, many organisations were waiting for the local legislation to understand th

43% of your workforce are likely curious and open to new job opportunities. They may not be actively seeking but are keeping an eye out, checking if the grass is greener on the other side. This is what comes out of the most recent survey thanks to misco Insights into Job Seeker Dynamics 2025/2026 that can be downloaded from here: https://lnkd.in/gDmrR4G4 What would you like your team to say? The grass is greener on this side or the other side? While it is not always within

In the recently published research by MISCO and the Malta Chamber of SMEs, the SME Barometer Survey 2025, 59% of participating employers cite employee wage and salary costs as the main cause of price increases in their business. The highest business issue faced is employee shortage (41%) while 16% indicate skills mismatch as an issue. No surprises in these results. Speak to any business owner and one of their greatest concerns is people – finding the right people who are ha

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