A Labour government would strengthen Malta’s equality commission and update social security laws to further promote gender equality, party leader Joseph Muscat said yesterday.
The PL would also make the Government more representative by ensuring more women were appointed to its boards, Dr Muscat said. He added the PL’s electoral programme would include “an entire chapter” discussing gender equality measures.
“Social security laws are based on families in which the male was the sole breadwinner. That is often not the case anymore and we need to address that,” he said.
The National Commission for the Promotion of Equality also needed greater powers to implement equality measures and provide redress when discrimination had occurred, he added.
Dr Muscat was speaking during a televised interview on One TV. Having started off discussing equality proposals, discussion soon veered to the party’s energy plans (see box).
Earlier in the morning, Dr Muscat had said he would still field questions on the subject, but the party wanted to “move on” from its much discussed energy plans and start unveiling other electoral proposals. These included proposals about workers’ rights –...
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