S.L. 452.83 Art. 4Information to be provided to the employee.

In those cases where no written contract of employment has been signed between the employer and the employee, and, or in those cases where the written contract does not cover all or some of the information required to be notified to the employee by these regulations, the employer shall be bound to give or send to the employee a letter of engagement or a signed statement, by not later than eight working days from the commencement of employment and which shall include the following information:

(a) the name, registration number and registered place of business of the employer and a legally valid identification document number, sex and address of the employee and the place of work: Provided that in the absence of a fixed place of work it should be stated that the employee will be employed at various places together with the registered place of business: Provided further that if there is no registered place of business, the domicile of the employer is to be stated;

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 267 of 2022.

(b) the date of commencement of employment;

(c) the period of probation;

(d) normal rates of wages payable;

(e) the overtime rates of wages payable;

(f) the normal hours of work;

(g) the periodicity of wage payments;

(h) in the case of a fixed term contract of employment, the expected or agreed duration of the contract period;

(i) the paid holidays, and the vacation, sick and other leave to which the employee is entitled;

(j) the conditions under which fines may be imposed by the employer;

(k) the title, grade, nature or category of the work for which the employee is employed;

(l) the notice periods to be observed by the employer and the employee should it be the case;

(m) the collective agreement, if any, governing the employee’s conditions of work; and

(n) any other relevant or applicable condition of employment: Provided that if any of the above information is regulated by any law, regulation, national standard order, sectoral regulation order or collective agreement, the information may, where appropriate, be given in the form of a reference to the laws, regulations, orders or collective agreements governing that same information: Provided further that where an employer engages a person under a contract for service as an outworker for an undertaking, he shall provide the employee with a signed statement showing -

(a) the name, registration number and registered place of business of the employer and a legally valid identification document number and address of the employee; and

(b) the rate to be paid for the work; and

(c) any special conditions regulating the contract.