{"id":82971,"date":"2026-02-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/minister-open-to-cultural-leave-proposal-for-festa-carnival-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:00:00","slug":"minister-open-to-cultural-leave-proposal-for-festa-carnival-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/minister-open-to-cultural-leave-proposal-for-festa-carnival-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister open to \u2018cultural leave\u2019 proposal for festa, carnival volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister open to \u2018cultural leave\u2019 proposal for festa, carnival volunteers<br \/>\nThe government is exploring the possibility of offering \u2018cultural leave\u2019 to public sector workers who volunteer during village feasts and carnival, according to Culture Minister Owen Bonnici.\u00a0The proposal was put forward earlier this week by Labour MEP Daniel Attard, who, in a report, called on the EU to legislate for extra leave days for&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/public-sector-workers-get-cultural-leave-feasts-carnival-bonnici.1124323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minister open to \u2018cultural leave\u2019 proposal for festa, carnival volunteers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister open to \u2018cultural leave\u2019 proposal for festa, carnival volunteers The government is exploring the possibility of offering \u2018cultural leave\u2019 to public sector workers who volunteer during village feasts and carnival, according to Culture Minister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}