Pay transparency
Pay transparency in Malta
Whether the Directive has been transposed here, under which act, and what it asks of an employer. The duty is the national law's, never the Directive's own date.
- Who it applies to
- Employers, through their own state's law, once it is in force.
- The dates
- The states had until 7 June 2026 to transpose it.
- The one thing to do
- Read the act below: it is Malta's law that binds you, not the Directive.
Where the state stands
Malta has communicated Equal Pay (Transparency and Reporting) Regulations, 2026 to the Commission as transposing the Directive.
In force since 5 June 2026.
The register of communicated measures was read on 23 October 2026.
What the national act asks
Equal Pay (Transparency and Reporting) Regulations, 2026 (L.N. 173 of 2026) sets the first report per headcount band, and how often it comes back.
| Workers | First report | Then |
|---|---|---|
| 250 and above | 7 June 2027 | every year |
| 150 to 249 | 7 June 2027 | every three years |
| 100 to 149 | 7 June 2031 | every three years |
What it adds to the Directive
- The first report covers calendar year 2026 for both reporting bands (regulation 9(2) and 9(3)). The pay data being collected this year is what that report is made from.
- The second report for the 150 to 249 band covers 2029 and not 2028, which is what three-yearly means once the first period is fixed (regulation 9(3)).
- Regulation 9(5) wants every report submitted within fourteen working days of the yearly period's end. That falls far earlier than the 7 June dates in the same regulation. Both are in the act; plan for the earlier one.
Read from Malta government gazette 21,661, via legislation.mt on 18 October 2026. The source
What the Directive sets, whatever the state has done
Employers with 250 workers or more report from 7 June 2027, and every year after. Those with 150 to 249 workers report every three years from the same day. Those with 100 to 149 workers report from 7 June 2031.
Those days are the latest a national law may set. A directive binds the state, and the employer owes what its own state enacted.
The duties as a catalogue, read against this state
Every duty of the Directive, with the evidence each one asks for and Malta's own dates where the act is read.
Related:The pay transparency guideEvery register for MaltaThe duties, article by article