Memorandum to political parties contesting the general election being held on 9th March 2013

Abstract

The Centre for Labour Studies (CLS) is the first and prototype centre set up at the University of Malta in 1981. A clearinghouse for independent and critical thinking and evidence based scholarship, the CLS has a broad mandate to act as a springboard for education, training, research and community outreach in a range of issues that concern workers and the Maltese Labour Market. Given the centrality of work to our lives, and its pivotal role in social and economic development, the CLS has also been unfailingly submitting workrelated policy recommendations to all political parties contesting general elections in Malta since 1981. Such recommendations typically gravitate around the areas of expertise that have coalesced at the CLS and that find obvious expression in its course offerings, ongoing reports and monitoring, and the publications of its core academic staff.