Public-holiday planning
- Use the planner to place annual leave immediately before or after public holidays and weekends; then confirm the exact holiday calendar and entitlement with your employer before booking.
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🇲🇹Malta
A 40-hour worker is entitled to at least 192 hours of paid vacation leave. Additional vacation leave is added when a national or public holiday falls on a weekend or weekly rest day.
Statutory paid annual leave192 hours for a 40-hour week (24 eight-hour days), plus certain public-holiday replacementsAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent24 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedMalta — Department for Industrial and Employment Relations
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Legal basis and comparison method
A 40-hour worker is entitled to at least 192 hours of paid vacation leave. Additional vacation leave is added when a national or public holiday falls on a weekend or weekly rest day.
Regional and calendar caveats
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
Official employment source: Malta — Department for Industrial and Employment Relations. Open official guidance ↗
This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
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The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
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