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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 343.21
AUXILIARY WORKERS AND TRAINING SCHEME 
REGULATIONS
16th February, 1988
LEGAL NOTICE 15 of 1988, as amended by Legal Notices 134 of 1990
and 16 of 1991.
Citation.
Training Scheme Regulations.
Interpretation.
Amended by:
L.N. 134 of 1990;
L.N. 16 of 1991.
Cap. 343.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Act" means the Employment and Training Services Act;
"auxiliary worker" shall have the same meaning as that in the
Act;
"Director of Labour" includes any officer of the Department of
Labour who is authorised by the Director to act on his behalf, and
"Director" shall be construed to have the same meaning;
"employment service" has the same meaning as that in the Act;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for labour;
"the scheme" means the Auxiliary Workers and Training
Scheme.
Responsibility of 
the Director.
Revoked by:
L.N. 134 of 1990.
Added by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
3. (1) The Director of Labour shall be directly responsible for
the administration and management of the scheme.
(2) The Minister may direct officers of the Department of
Labour or of the Employment and Training Corporation to be
seconded for duties with the scheme.
(3) The Director shall execute such policy directives issued by
the Minister and observe such regulations or instructions as are
issued under labour laws.
The work phase.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
4. (1) The Director shall provide and seek temporary work
for auxiliary workers in the Government, parastatal and private
sectors and carry out the projects entrusted to it.
(2) The Board shall appoint a manager who shall be
responsible for the daily administration of the scheme with regard
to matters related to the work phase as well as to the execution of
projects for which the scheme will be directly responsible.
Enrolment in the 
scheme.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
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5. (1) Enrolment in the scheme shall take place following
written applications according to calls made from time to time by
the employment service and published in the Government Gazette
for categories of persons from among those referred to in the Act.
The employment service may also offer persons registering for
work to join the scheme and, for the purposes of the Register of
Applicants for Employment (Part Two) Order, membership in the
scheme shall be considered as an offer of suitable employment.
(2) Prior to being enrolled in the scheme, a person shall be
served with a written notice regarding the general conditions of
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work and training and shall complete the enrolment form and sign
the necessary statements for the purposes of the contract of work
and training under the scheme.
(3) Saving the provisions of any other law regarding false
statements, any person making a false statement shall forfeit the
right of enrolment under the scheme and should such false
statement be discovered subsequently to such person’s enrolment
under the scheme, such person shall be automatically dismissed.
(4) The officer in charge shall be satisfied that the individual
shall have understood the contents of the notice and of the
enrolment form as well as the statements signed by him.
(5) A person shall become an auxiliary worker under the
scheme on signing the said statements.
(6) When the term in the scheme is to be renewed, account will
be taken of the behaviour and performance of the auxiliary worker
throughout his term within the scheme.
Medical 
examinations.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
6. (1) Auxiliary workers shall be subject to such medical
examinations as may be necessary from time to time both before
and after enrolment in the scheme.
(2) Medical examinations shall be carried out by a Medical
Board composed of a panel of medical practitioners and paramedics
appointed by the Director.
Work clothes and 
equipment.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
7. (1) Auxiliary workers shall wear such work clothes as are
normally required in the Government service or in the particular
sector to which they will have been attached according to the
Director’s decision.
(2) Work clothes and equipment or tools that auxiliary workers
shall be provided with shall remain Government’s property and
shall be returned in good condition, except for fair wear and tear,
within seven days from one’s termination of service in the scheme.
Wages.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
8. (1) Auxiliary workers shall receive a wage payable every
fortnight which shall in no case be lower than the national
minimum wage in addition to the bonus.
(2) The Director may, with the approval of the Minister,
establish various grades and categories of auxiliary workers and
also establish different scales of remuneration based on the type of
work assigned, one’s skill, efficiency and trade.
Working hours. 9. Auxiliary workers shall work an average of forty hours
spread over a week of five or six days or the hours of work (or
training) as may apply at the place of work or establishment where
they are placed.
Holidays.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
10. (1) Auxiliary workers are entitled to all those public
holidays established by law.
(2) Without prejudice to the exigencies of the service,
auxiliary workers shall be entitled to twenty vacation leave days
(twenty-four when they work a six-day week) with full pay every
calendar year, with effect from the lapse of three months from the
date of enrolment in the scheme.
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(3) Auxiliary workers shall also be entitled to full pay during
sickness up to a maximum of twenty days in a calendar year.
Sickness pay shall only be payable if one satisfies the conditions
which the Director may set out from time to time, including that
requiring auxiliary workers to submit to an examination by the
Medical Board or by a medical practitioner appointed by the
Medical Board.
(4) Auxiliary workers shall also be entitled to three days leave
on marriage and to two days leave on the birth of a child to the
auxiliary worker’s wife, provided that the said two days leave are
availed of consecutively within one month from the date of the
child’s birth.
(5) Auxiliary workers shall also be entitled to two days leave
on the death of any of the following relatives: the father, mother,
wife, husband, son, daughter and brothers or sisters of the auxiliary
worker.
(6) Auxiliary workers shall be entitled to maternity leave as
established by law.
(7) Auxiliary workers shall be entitled to their pay when called
to serve as jurors in Court.
Other conditions.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
11. (1) Auxiliary workers may not perform private work
without the Director’s written permission to do so.
(2) In those cases where it results that these regulations do not
make specific provision, the Director may, in consultation with the
Director of Labour, decide and his decision shall be final.
Discipline.
Amended by:
L.N. 16 of 1991.
12. (1) Auxiliary workers are expected to observe the
regulations in force from time to time and to carry out the orders
and work given to them by their superiors at all levels.
(2) Disciplinary measures may be taken, including dismissal
from the scheme, deduction of pay, suspension without pay or with
half pay, against auxiliary workers who are found guilty of any
offence listed in the Schedule.
(3) There shall be a Disciplinary Board composed of three
persons, appointed by the Director to investigate and decide
disciplinary cases in the scheme and to determine due punishment,
according to the seriousness of the case.
(4) In any disciplinary case, an auxiliary worker shall be given
details in writing of the charge brought against him and shall have
the right to answer in writing to such charge, without prejudice to
the right to appear before the Disciplinary Board if the disciplinary
proceedings are continued.
(5) An auxiliary worker has the right to be present during the
hearing of his case and the Disciplinary Board shall consider
anything that he may say in his defence. In every case, an auxiliary
worker shall have the right to hear the evidence against him and
cross-examine witnesses, testify on his own behalf, and to summon
witnesses for his defence. No auxiliary worker may be compelled
to testify in his own defence.
(6) An auxiliary worker may be assisted by another person of
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his own choice.
(7) The Disciplinary Board shall regulate its procedures in
such a way that, in conformity with the norms of natural justice, the
proceedings are expedited for the early conclusion of cases.
Work. 13. (1) Auxiliary workers are expected to carry out all the
work assigned to them accurately and conscientiously as instructed
by their superiors and are to do their best to complete the work
assigned to them satisfactorily and in the least possible time.
(2) Auxiliary workers may be engaged in construction work,
maintenance work, street cleaning, land cultivation schemes, the
necessary preparation work for projects or on actual projects, as
well as any other work they are capable of carrying out in the
Government, parastatal and private sectors, as may be necessary.
(3) Auxiliary workers may be placed with establishments,
factories and contractors to carry out work that is suitable to them
and/or in which they are receiving training.
(4) An auxiliary worker who rejects an offer for employment
without a valid reason loses his right to continue in the scheme.
Casual workers. 14. Subject to the provisions of these regulations, casual
workers may, while still receiving the wages of the place of work
where they are employed as casuals and with other conditions
similar to those generally applicable to Government employees, be
given work and training within the scheme according to exigencies.
Excess workers. 15. Workers employed in terms of section 110 of the
Constitution of Malta, who are found to be in excess of the needs of
the enterprise within which they are employed, may, while
remaining on the books of the enterprise under the same conditions,
be trained in the scheme if the need arises and perform work which
would be as analogous as possible in the scheme while still
retaining the right to revert to the enterprise in which they had been
employed, when a vacancy occurs.
SCHEDULE
Regulation 12
List of offences falling under the jurisdiction 
of the Disciplinary Board:
( a ) absence from work or late attendance for work without a
valid reason;
( b ) abandonment of a place of work without permission or a
valid reason;
( c ) the utterance of language signifying insubordination to
superior officers;
( d ) the use of violence on a superior officer or any other
person;
( e ) lack of obedience to a legitimate order or command given
by a superior officer;
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( f ) loitering or the simulation of illness or disability, bad
workmanship and low productivity;
( g ) the negligent loss or damage of property belonging to
Government or to third parties;
( h ) the wilful destruction or damage of any property belonging
to Government or to third parties, issued or entrusted to members
within the scheme;
( i ) the making or aiding in the making of a false or malicious
statement when this is known to be false, or of an omission, with a
malicious intent, in a report, prospect, pay list or other document
which is drawn up or signed by a member within the scheme, or on
whom it is incumbent to check the exactness of the contents
thereof;
( j ) failure to attend as a witness in an inquiry about a breach
of discipline when an order has been issued summoning such
attendance;
( k ) an offence which may lead to criminal proceedings;
( l ) any act, conduct or negligence prejudicial to the good order
and discipline of the scheme.
