Living Wage & Universal Basic Income
The minimum wage needs to be a living wage. Not less. Anyone working full-time should not have to depend on charity to make ends meet. The minimum wage has trickled up whilst expenses continue to skyrocket.
Living Wage
Improve the Personal Action Plan by JobsPlus to make it more inclusive, accessible and successful for persons of different backgrounds.
Add financial literacy training.
Add ‘planning for the future’.
Develop ‘‘Regeneration’’ courses for the unemployed and NEETs to facilitate reintegration into the educational and workforce system, and help build confidence.
Ensure that such courses also make a significant emphasis on highlighting mental health, and facilitating access to mental healthcare services.
Ensure awareness and accessibility of mental healthcare facilities.
Study and research outcomes of the YOUTH GUARANTEE 2.0 programme, to create a better 3.0 version of the project.
Offer free/supported educational services to facilitate obtaining a higher qualification level which would facilitate access to the job market for NEETs and persons unemployed for at least 24 months. Access would be supported by facilitating the purchase of textbooks & a stationary set required for their education, since public education until MQF 6 is free.
This service may be used once to obtain an MQF 5 or MQF 6 Qualification in Malta if their current qualification does not suffice for a satisfactory job.
The skills that the course provides must be skills that are currently in demand in Malta or Europe. Additionally, it would seek to fill in gaps within the public sector and would be facilitated through work experience.
This service may be used a second time to obtain an MQF 5 or MQF 6 Qualification in Malta if their current qualification does not suffice for a satisfactory job.
The skills that the course provides must be skills that are currently in demand in Malta or Europe.
They may apply for an MQF 7 course, against a 0% interest rate loan which is repayable over 5 years in which the individual is working.
This service may be used to obtain a minimum education qualification of MQF 4 and may opt to continue to achieve an MQF 5.
This service may be used to obtain an MQF 7 Qualification in Malta if their current qualification does not suffice for a satisfactory job.
They may apply for an MQF 7 course, against a -5% interest rate loan which is repayable over 5 years in which the individual is working.
The skills that the course provides must be skills that are currently in demand in Malta or Europe. Additionally, it would seek to fill in gaps within the public sector and would be facilitated through work experience.
Universal Basic Income
Conduct an experiment in UBI in Malta to study for 4 years through a cross-section of society, but primarily focused on individuals in, or at risk of poverty & social exclusion.
