Recently, a new workplace health and safety legislation has been approved with the purpose of enhancing safety standards at the workplace. This comprehensive legal framework is designed to prevent workplace accidents and revamp the Occupational Health and Safety Authority, ensuring a safer and more supportive work environment for employees across all borders. For this reason,...
Alexia Bonnici has recently represented David Zahra & Associates Advocates at a conference organized by the Malta Maritime Forum titled ‘ESG in Maritime’. The conference, held on 27th June 2024 at the ‘Notch Conference Centre’ in Kappara, sought to analyze the different elements of ESG, with a specific focus on the challenges encountered by maritime stakeholders....
On 19 June, Malta officially signed a crucial United Nations maritime convention: the UN Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the Beijing Convention), a convention aimed at providing certainty to purchasers of ships sold in judicial sales by preventing old creditors from rearresting these ships. The Convention enhances legal certainty by...
Andrew Grech has recently represented David Zahra & Associates at the AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers) seminar held in Malta, titled ‘Setting Sails in Turbulent Times’. The seminar, which was jointly organised by the Transport and Business Law Commissions and was held at the University of Malta’s Valletta Campus, aptly tackled the contemporary challenges...
The new Temporary Agency Workers Regulations (S.L. 452.133) (the “Regulations”) were published on June 4, 2024, and will enter into force on 1 January 2025. The Regulations seek to ensure equal treatment for temporary agency workers in Malta and will replace the current regulations. The Regulations apply to both ‘temporary work agencies’ and newly defined...
Through the issuance of Commercial Yachting Notice 12 on 20 March 2024, the Merchant Shipping Directorate within Transport Malta introduced a tailor-made code for small commercial yachts registered under the Malta flag; the Small Commercial Yacht Code (sCYC). The development of this Code is testament to the importance of the smaller commercial yacht sector and...