You’ve failed to protect the interests of the workers, lobbyists tell unions

Lobbyists have slammed the General Workers' Union and Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin for failing to exert influence on the government in its transposition of the work-life balance directive in favour of the interest of workers.
In a letter to the two unions, Moviment Graffitti, the Malta Women’s Lobby, the Malta Federation of Organisations Persons with Disability, the National Parent’s Society Persons with Disability, the Women’s Rights Foundation and aditus Foundation expressed disappointment at the role the unions played in the transposition of the directive, calling for a change to the "weak law"
On August 2, legal notice 201 of 2022, amending the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, will come into force in Malta transposing the EU Work-Life Balance Directive into local law.
The changes will essentially extend paid paternity leave, introduce partially paid parental leave (two months of the current four-month leave will be paid at sick-leave rate) and grant parents the right to request flexible hours. 
Carers get five days of unpaid additional leave a year to support a sick relative.

Lobbyists have already publicly complained the way the local government implemented the...