Adapting your payroll to a fluctuating workforce

According to the latest Registered Employment: April 2026 release from NSO Malta, Malta’s labour market continues to demonstrate resilience and growth, with employment levels remaining strong and workforce dynamics are continuing to evolve.

In a changing environment, a cloud-based payroll solution such as Shireburn’s Indigo Payroll enables organisations to respond quickly to workforce demands. Whether managing an expanding employee base, onboarding new hires, adapting to legislative updates, or supporting more flexible work arrangements, the Indigo Payroll platform provides the scalability and agility needed to keep pace with business growth.

Automatic updates, secure online access, and reduced infrastructure requirements allow HR and payroll teams to focus on people and strategy rather than system administration, ensuring payroll remains accurate, compliant, and aligned with the organisation’s evolving needs.

At the time of writing, the Indigo Payroll platform paid EUR 2.8 billion per year in net pay process through direct credit instructions to banks – with 150,000 payslips per month being issued.

Adding our Job Evaluation Tool enables helps organisations evaluate roles objectively, define job value, and support clear, explainable pay decisions as well as clearly and consistently evaluate roles across their organisation to be able to respond to requests from employees in line with the The EU Pay Transparency Directive.

This legislation, (EU 2023/970), introduces new legal requirements for employers across the EU. Pay Transparency is now law in Malta (since 5 June 2026), and organisations must now be able to explain pay decisions clearly and consistently – including pay ranges, the criteria used, and how job value is assessed.

Our system enables an annualised and full time equivalent sum so that the comparison can be shown clearly.

Book a 15 minute call to see how we can help your fluctuating staff numbers and help with legislation demands.