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Contract of service for an indefinite time (Malta)
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For an employer and an employee in Malta agreeing a permanent job: a written contract of service under the Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452) setting the start, the probationary period, the job and place of work, hours, wages paid at most four weeks in arrears, statutory bonuses, leave, and notice by length of service as article 36 requires. Both sign two copies and each keeps one.
- Made for use in Malta
- Last updated November 4, 2026
- Document in English
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When to use this document
- You are hiring your first full-time employee in Malta and need a written contract of service.
- A worker in Malta is moving from a fixed-term contract to a permanent job with you.
- Your small business in Malta has staff working on a handshake and you want the terms written down.
- You want the probation, wages, leave and notice for a new hire in Malta set out clearly from day one.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- City
- Date
- Employer
- Employer's company registration number (C number, if a company)
- Employer's registered address
- Person signing for the employer
- Employee
- Employee's ID card, residence document or passport number
- Employee's address
- Employee's postcode
- Start date
- Probationary period (e.g. six months; blank if none)
- Job title
- Duties
- Place of work (address, or the localities where the work is done)
- Working hours
- Gross base salary
- The wage is paid by the week or by the month
- Pay day (e.g. the last working day of each month)
- Other terms
- Collective agreement that applies (blank if none)
- Longer notice agreed for a technical, administrative, executive or managerial post (blank if none)
Common questions
- How long can the probationary period be in a Maltese contract of service?
- Six months, under article 36(1) of Cap. 452, or twelve for a technical, executive, administrative or managerial post paid at least double the national minimum wage (article 36(1b)). The parties may agree a shorter one. Two weeks or more of approved leave suspend the probation and extend it by the same time, and the employer may not dismiss during that suspension (article 36(1c)).
- On what grounds can an employer in Malta end a contract for an indefinite time?
- Only on grounds of redundancy, with the notice article 36(5) of Cap. 452 sets, or without notice where there is good and sufficient cause (article 36(3) and (14)). In a redundancy, the last person engaged in the class of work affected goes first, and has a right to be re-employed if the post is available again within a year (article 36(3)–(4)).
- Does this contract give all the information an employer in Malta must give in writing?
- It gives the main terms. The Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Regulations, 2022 (L.N. 267 of 2022) list what the employer must give in writing, most of it within the first seven calendar days, and the contract commits the employer to give anything on that list it does not already cover. DIER publishes guidance on the Regulations free of charge.
How you can sign this document
- Print it and sign by hand. The signature lines in the document are left blank on purpose — sign on them in ink.
- Sign it yourself with a qualified electronic signature. If you already hold a QES — Evrotrust, B-Trust, StampIT, ZealiD or any qualified provider on the EU Trusted List, on a card, a USB token, in a mobile app or in the cloud — our signing guide explains step by step how to sign this exact file without invalidating it. Step-by-step help, and a way to check it worked
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