https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/41412 2026-04-11T14:20:49Z 2026-04-11T14:20:49Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/97991 2022-06-16T13:38:45Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Centre for Labour Studies : biennial report 2011-2012 Abstract: What started off as a small research unit looking at worker participation in Malta Drydocks is hardly recognisable today. Even its name has changed. But one thing that has survived is the governance structure of the Centre for Labour Studies: it has survived so well that it has spawned dozens of similar institutes and centres at the University of Malta. It is a structure that has served us well for over 30 years now: obliging us to respect the interests of our non-academic partners, nudging us to focus our research on policy relevant areas, yet helping us to remain faithful to the pursuit of critical inquiry and academic integrity that justify our existence as a university centre. We continue to operate in this manner, after due deliberation, and after having been invited (without obligation) by the University Rector to join the recently set up Faculty for Social Well-being. The Centre for Labour Studies now comprises five core members of the academic and administrative staff - the largest ever core complement in its history - and is supported by a cadre of other university employees, lecturers, researchers and other sub-contractees. Acting in collaboration with other university bodies, the Centre for Labour Studies is responsible for the running of four distinct university course streams, offering a suite of qualifications that range from undergraduate certificates and diplomas to a full evening degree programme, and a post-graduate diploma. It continues to serve as Malta’s national clearing house for information and research on most areas connected to work, and including working conditions, work-life balance, occupational health and safety and industrial relations. And we continue to offer one of the few avenues for the pursuit of tertiary education to parttime and occasional students - and including female home workers - who cannot otherwise afford to read for a university qualification, on a full or part-time basis, in Malta. We offer this 2011-2012 biennial report as a testimony to the interesting and diverse work of: our many adult students; of the scope of the Centre’s media impact, research and publications; and of our evidence-informed contributions to public policy in general, and labour policy in particular. Feedback on any aspect of its contents is welcome via e-mail to: cls@um.edu.mt My sincere thanks to all CLS Board Members, past and present, for their unfailing support and wise counsel; as well as to commend CLS Director Dr Manwel Debono and his team for enriching the University of Malta with such a top-notch research, outreach and education institution, of which I am so proud to serve as Chair.

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Title: 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.

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Title: Foreword Abstract: Europe is going through difficult times. The economic downturn that started in 2008 has not yet subsided. The solution of reducing economic expenditure prescribed by the European Union (EU) to its ailing member states seems not to have worked as intended. Indeed, several EU states, especially those in the Mediterranean region, are facing further bleak economic prospects and social unrest.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/41552 2019-03-27T02:36:45Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Long-term unemployment in Malta Abstract: The ratio of long-term unemployed persons in relation to the unemployed population in Malta has grown considerably between 2008 and 2012. This article discusses major factors driving transitions into and out of long-term unemployment, and state policies being implemented to prevent and tackle long-term unemployment.

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