FAQs

The employee can forward his/her claim, which must be supported by documents, to the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations which will investigate and take the necessary steps. Criminal action can only be instituted by the Department within a prescriptive period of one year. This does not prejudice the employee’s right to institute civil action against the employer according to civil law.

  • The employee can seek the assistance of the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations who will investigate the case, including instituting criminal action against the employer if the case so requires.
  • The employee as a private individual can institute action within the civil court.
  • In case of alleged unfair dismissal, discriminatory treatment, breach of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, victimization, harassment and all the cases which refer to the Industrial Tribunal, the employee as a private individual can institute action before the Industrial Tribunal.

The normal hours of work for full-time employment vary according to the relevant sector of industry. These are established in Wage Regulation Orders that regulate such sectors according to their activity of work. The normal hours of work of a part-time employee should be less than those worked by a comparable full-time employee, calculated on a weekly basis or on an average over a period of employment of up to one year.

If the training is obligatory, the employer must treat that period as working time and pay it accordingly.

In any part-time employment, whether as a principal or secondary employment,  a part-time employee is entitled to all entitlements enjoyed by the comparable full-time employee, on a pro rata basis.

The pro-rata is the proportion of the number of weekly hours worked by the part-time employee when compared to the number of the normal weekly hours worked by a full-time employee performing same work.

Example: (The vacation leave of a full timer working 40 hours per week is 200 hours in 2018. If the part-timer works 20 hours a week, the pro-rata vacation leave entitlement is 20/40×200 hours = 100 hours.)