European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
Employment and Industrial Relations Act, 2002 - Article 36.4; Collective Redundancies (Protection of Employment) Regulations - Whole regulations
The Collective Redundancies (Protection of Employment) Regulations does not specify the criteria for the selection of those employees who will be made redundant. Nonetheless, within seven working days from the day on which the employees’ representatives have been notified of the intended collective redundancies (10 employees in companies with more than 20 and fewer than 100 persons, 10% of the workforce if between 100 and 299 persons are employed; and 30 employees or more if 300 persons or more are employed), the employer has to inform the employees’ representatives in writing about the proposed criteria for the selection of the employees to be made redundant.
However, in the event of termination of employment on grounds of redundancy the rule of 'last in first out' is applied. This means that the last person who was hired in the category of employees affected by redundancy should be dismissed first. In those cases involving companies which are not a limited liability company or a statutory body, and where the employee to be made redundant is related to the employer by up to the third degree of consanguinity, the employer may instead of terminating the employment of such person terminate that of the person next in line.
Labour legislation and relating amendments are discussed at policy formulation stage, in the tripartite Employment Relations Board (ERB). Members forming this board come from trade unions, employers' associations and the government.
Eurofound (2015), Malta: Selection of employees for (collective) dismissals, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/selection-of-employees-for-collective-dismissals/malta
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