Work and Employment Services

Trade unions and employers’ associations undergo organisational changes from time to time that may require updates in their statute. Such changes in the statute need to be registered with the Registrar of Trade Unions.

The Guarantee Fund is intended to guarantee payment of unpaid wages due by an employer, to those employees whose employment is terminated because of the employer’s proved insolvency. Insolvency is when an individual or organization can no longer meet its financial obligations.

The employee binds himself to reimburse the Fund with a sum equivalent to the amount paid out of the Fund by the Administration Board in respect of the claim made by the employee from any amounts retrieved from any court proceedings or from any settlement received from a liquidator, as the case may be.

Any person who is found guilty of registering a false claim for unpaid amounts or who is found guilty of acting in collusion with an employer or an employee in order to obtain payments from the Fund, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine (multa) which is equivalent to ten times the amount paid out of the Fund, together with any other punishment to which the offender shall be liable according to any other applicable law.

A new trade union has to be registered with the Registrar of Trade Unions, according to the Employment and Industrial Relations Act.

When trade unions and employers’ association cease to exist the Secretary and the Treasurer have to notify the Registrar of Trade Unions giving details related to the dissolution of their organisation.

A Trade Union or Employers' Association may wish to cancel its Certificate of Registration in order to continue operating in another manner, but not as a trade union or employers' association.