#Civil servants

Some 13,000 civil service employees take sick leave every year, according to finance ministry figures made public on Friday. At the same time, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos acknowledged that such an ...

THE PUBLIC works department was always notorious for its legendary inefficiency. It was traditionally the employer of a special type of public parasite – the type that is less productive than ...

A senior civil servant has been paid about €280,000 over six and a half years while on temporary leave and not working, according to the public service commission’s annual report ...

Almost every civil servant has again being rated ‘excellent’, with the public service commission lamenting the reviews on Friday as “disappointing”. The commission’s chief George Papageorgiou presenting the body’...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that civil servants must “meet the expectations of society” as he received the civil service commission’s annual report at the presidential palace. Christodoulides ...

An improved government proposal aimed at resolving the ongoing dispute with hourly-paid public sector workers will be put before employees for a decision, unions said on Monday following a meeting ...

President Nikos Christodoulides appears to have acquired a new expertise – mediator in labour disputes. On Wednesday morning he called the representatives of unions representing government workers on hourly pay for ...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) said on Monday it does not know how many exams will be carried out under a proposed new system for hiring in the civil service. ...

Trade union SEK announced a 24-hour strike for September 17, following Monday’s joint labour committee meeting that discussed the renewal of the collective agreement for government hourly workers covering the ...

Trade unions and the government will begin discussions next month regarding sick leave rules in the public sector, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris confirmed on Wednesday. Fitiris informed the Cyprus News ...

A string of outstanding issues affecting the public sector workforce were discussed on Tuesday by civil servants’ union Pasydy, President Nikos Christodoulides, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and Labour Minister Marinos ...

The House plenum on Thursday approved regulations that will factor in prior service in the public sector for the purposes of calculating employees’ annual leave. The amended regulations passed by ...

MPs and trade unions on Monday generally expressed satisfaction at government legislation that would factor in prior service in the public sector for the purposes of calculating employees’ annual leave. ...

We do not often hear politicians speak critically of the abuse of rights by public servants. It was therefore a very pleasant surprise to hear two ministers bring up the ...

Hourly paid government employees marched from the finance ministry to the presidential palace on Wednesday morning chanting slogans including ‘No to Starvation Salaries’ and ‘End the Mockery, we are not ...

Civil servants’ union Pasydy insisted on Tuesday that more than 90 per cent of civil servants do not make use of sick leave, following growing scrutiny of absentee levels in the ...

Public hospitals have been placed on full alert ahead of Wednesday’s 24-hour strike by hourly paid government employees, with state health services organisation Okypy saying measures are in place ...

The government is preparing structural changes to address the abuse of sick leave across the public sector after concerns were raised over employees remaining absent from work for years while ...

Hourly-paid government workers will hold a 24-hour strike on Wednesday to protest over low wages and unresolved labour demands, they said on Friday. The action was announced by unions SEK, ...

Concerns over an alleged expansion of the state wage bill do not reflect reality, public servants’ union Pasydy said on Wednesday, responding to reports linking rising personnel costs to the ...

The views of civil servants expressed through their trade union Pasydy are “always taken into serious consideration” and implemented wherever possible, however in times of global uncertainty “stability and modernisation ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Friday relieved four high-ranking members of the north’s civil service of their duties, with one of the four suggesting that many ...

MPs on Thursday grumbled but still passed regulations reinstating certain healthcare benefits for civil servants not enjoyed by the broader public. The regulations, tabled by the government, give civil servants – ...

Of all the various stories I wrote in 2025, the one about the dam in Solea – ‘A dam full of water going to waste’, to quote the headline – wasn’t necessarily ...