Malta : self-employed workers

Abstract

Various stakeholders consider self-employment as an important part of the local economy, a notion sustained by official statistics. While the government strives to encourage more persons to venture into self-employment, it faces complaints about lack of efficiency within some of its key related bodies. The social security regime for selfemployment could be improved, while tackling the increase in bogus self-employment. Collective representation of self-employed persons depends mostly on the employers’ association, the Malta Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises (GRTU). Although the GRTU is included in a number of fora, it complains of being hardly involved in joint regulation.