Supporting Sustainable Quality Employment in Gozo Scheme

Abstract

Scheme offers a partial salary reimbursement to Gozo-based employers, spread over 3 years for full-time indefinite employment. Eligible staff includes newly hired staff or those continuously employed after 1st January 2018, whose employer benefited from the full 3-year cycle under the previous Gozo Employment Refund Scheme or Gozo Back-Office Employment Refund Scheme.

Description

Through the Supporting Sustainable Quality Employment in Gozo Scheme more efforts will be directed towards consolidating full-time employment in Gozo, with enhanced salary packages and employment sustainability for employees, while contributing to alleviate employee turnover rates for employers. 

In addition, the scheme also intends to contribute towards assimilating Gozo’s average annual basic salary with that registered on a national level. 

Aid under this scheme is to be granted to Employers in the forms of a partial reimbursement of salaries of:

• newly employed staff, based in Gozo; or
• staff based in Gozo, already employed with the same undertaking uninterruptedly as from 1st January 2018 onwards and for which their employer has already benefitted from the full 3-year cycle under the Gozo Employment Refund Scheme or Gozo Back-Office Employment Refund Scheme.

Beneficiaries

The beneficiary is the employer located and with a registered address in Gozo, benefitting from the partial wage reimbursement of employed staff, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the scheme.

Support Rates

The aid received by beneficiaries over a period of 3 years, will cover partial reimbursement of the annual basic salary of each employee on a full-time, indefinite contract. The applicable rate will be calculated according to the following annual basic salaries.

 Link:https://mgozservices.gov.mt/eforms/frontEnd/?form=supporting_sustainable_quality_employment_in_gozo_scheme_2024