Skills Pass lists five topics for the second online module: workplace culture, avoiding exploitation and knowing your rights, basic hygiene, basic work ethics, and labour law. This page practises rules from those topic areas, each checked against Maltese law or a government page.
Use this page to practise
Explain, in your own words, what you would do if an agency asked you to pay for a job. Then check your answer against the source.
Independent practice only. This guide is not an official syllabus, question bank, or prediction of results.
- M2
Pre-Departure Course · Topic 8 of 12
4 sections · 7 key facts · 4 review prompts
What the official module covers
Skills Pass names the second module's topics as Workplace Culture and Expectations, Avoiding Exploitation and Knowing Your Rights, Basic Hygiene in Malta, Basic Work Ethics, and Labour Law and Workers' Rights in Malta. It describes each online exam as about 30 minutes of true-or-false or multiple-choice questions.
Use your official course materials first. This page practises the same topic areas with rules taken from Maltese law and government pages, so you can check every answer yourself. It does not show what the official exam asks.
Your contract, pay and time at work
Your employer must give you the contract and the main written information by the seventh calendar day of work. You get an itemised payslip on or before payday, and wages are paid at regular intervals of no more than four weeks.
Rest is protected: usually at least 11 hours in a row between working days (legal exceptions normally require equivalent rest immediately after that period of work), a break of at least 15 minutes when the working day is longer than six hours, and a weekly rest period. On average you should not work more than 48 hours a week unless you agree in writing.
Avoiding exploitation
An employment agency must not charge you for employment services, and must not take fees from your wages. Being unable to get your own ID documents back, or an employer controlling your housing and transport, are listed by Appoġġ as possible signs of exploitation.
Supportline 179 gives help and takes reports. In an emergency, call 112. For pay and conditions, DIER has a line for employees: 1575.
Health, safety and hygiene
Health and safety measures required by law must not cost you anything, including required protective equipment. You use the equipment correctly, put reusable equipment back after use, do not remove or change safety devices just to work faster, and report serious danger straight away. OHSA enforces these rules.
Everyone who handles food in Malta needs a food handling course and a Food Handlers Card from the Food Safety Commission. Waiters and bar staff take Category A; people who prepare food, such as chefs, take Category B.
Key facts to remember
Contract and main written information: by the 7th calendar day of work.
Itemised payslip on or before payday; wages at intervals of no more than 4 weeks.
Usually 11 hours' rest between working days.
At least a 15-minute break when your working day is longer than six hours.
Agencies may not charge you for employment services.
Required protective equipment must not cost you anything.
Supportline 179 · Emergency 112 · DIER employees 1575.
Study tips
- Read each explanation, then open the source once. Seeing the real rule makes it easier to remember.
- Practise saying the rule as an action: “If an agency asks me to pay for a job, I do not pay and I contact DIER for advice.”
- Redo the questions you missed tomorrow, not straight away.
Common pitfalls
- Thinking a fee for a job is normal because a friend paid one. Agencies in Malta may not charge applicants for employment services.
- Accepting money taken from your wages without a legal reason.
- Removing a safety guard just because a supervisor says it is faster.
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By when must you have your contract?
By the seventh calendar day of work.
What do you get on or before every payday?
An itemised payslip.
Can an agency charge you for finding a job?
No. No payment may be demanded from an applicant for employment services.
Who pays for required protective equipment?
Not you. Safety measures required by law must not cost workers anything.
Preparation scope and sources
Identità names Living and Working in Malta and Rights and Obligations in the Workplace, with assessments and an interview checking English proficiency and understanding of the course content. Use your assigned course materials and booking instructions as your syllabus. This hub is supplementary practice; it does not cover every official question.
Read Identità's official Pre-Departure Course guidance
Assessment guidance checked:
The linked programme overview establishes the preparation context, not an official endorsement of these exercises. Follow your provider's current course materials and assessment instructions.