Abstract
Scheme assists employers, based or having business premises in Malta, to offer their Gozitan resident employees the facility to work from home. Aid represents a financial grant of up to €10,000 per employee, spread over 3 years, paid proportionately on the number of telework days granted. The Scheme also offers a one-off financial granted related to the Technological and Capital Investment.
Description
Through this scheme, aid is to be granted to employers in the form of a financial granted spread over a 3-year period, paid proportionately on the number of days the employee is granted telework. The Scheme also offers a one-off financial granted related to the Technological and Capital Investment to equip the employee with the necessary tools to perform tasks.
The Gozo Teleworking Scheme will provide aid to eligible employers, based or having business premises in Malta, to offer their Gozitan resident employees the facility to work from home should their job-related tasks be equally fulfilled. Providing employees with the opportunity to balance their work and life commitments, whilst still maintaining the same level of performance throughout the organization, is given prominence by various organization both on a national and international level. Offering this level of flexibility to a workforce implies managing at a distance, which subsequently necessitates a more robust and adaptable system of work measurement. However, it is widely understood that this flexibility allows the employee to be increasingly productive, incentives the employee to go the extra mile and substitutes time lost in travel with actual work done.
Beneficiaries
The beneficiary is the employer benefitting from the incentives provided by this scheme, when granting telework to an eligible participant, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the scheme. Employers can apply again under the Gozo Teleworking Scheme for employees previously awarded grants between 2020-2023. Eligibility, however, will only be restricted to partial salary reimbursements.
Support Rates
The aid received by beneficiaries consists of 2 components:
- A salary refund based on the proportion of teleworking hours each Gozitan employees is granted by the Employer, up to a maximum grant of €10,000 per employee, spread over a period of 3 years.
- A one-time partial financial reimbursement related to Technological, and Capital Investment made to equip the employee with the necessary tools to perform tasks. The eligible aid offered entails 75% reimbursement on expenses incurred on the purchase of a Notebook Computer or PC together with a printer including scanning facilities, up to a maximum €850 reimbursement ceiling.
Link:https://mgozservices.gov.mt/eforms/frontEnd/?form=gozo_telewoking_scheme_2024