In the next Budget self-employed parents undergoing IVF treatment will be enjoying up to 100 hours of leave paid by the Government during a treatment cycle.
Prime Minister Robert Abela announced this during another consultation meeting before the 2025 Budget, this time with the Chamber of Small and Medium Businesses. A meeting held at the NM Group company in Naxxar where the Prime Minister also had the opportunity to meet its management together with the workers.
While in the consultation meeting, the Prime Minister and the delegation from the Chamber of Small and Medium Businesses, discussed the proposals for the next Budget, Dr. Abela explained that mothers who are self-employed will now be they are given 60 hours of paid leave while the second parent who is also self-employed, is entitled to another 40 hours while they are going through the IVF cycle.
In relation to small and medium businesses, Prime Minister Robert Abela pointed out how they are the backbone of our country’s economy. Therefore he supported the importance that as a Government it continues to deliver a clear position even in the European forums regarding the competitiveness of our country as part of the Single Market of the European Union.
“One size fits all is something that we strongly oppose and our discussion even at a European level will always be that we don’t put the burden on you to achieve these changes but we offer the incentive policy”, he said.
Accompanying the Prime Minister for this consultation meeting were the Deputy Prime Minister Ian Borg, Ministers Clayton Bartolo, Miriam Dalli and Clyde Caruana, Parliamentary Secretary Andy Ellul and Head of the Secretariat in Office of Prime Minister Mark Mallia.
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