Price increases: The government cannot set profit margins
Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise What is the margin of profit?...
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Audit office against allowing civil servants to keep job on hold while serving as MP
The audit office on Friday called on political parties to ditch a proposal that would allow civil servants to be elected as MPs without resigning...
Auditor-general questions status change for president’s associates
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday called out President Nicos Anastasiades over the affair where four of the president’s associates – previously contract workers – were...
Thousands of civil servants involved in private businesses
Some 2,000 civil servants are participating in the management of private companies in some way without prior permission from the finance ministry, the House ethics...
Turkish Cypriot civil servants stage strike
Civil servants in the north went on strike on Thursday over a freeze on the cost-of-living increment for four months. Hundreds of civil servants marched...
Government employment in January up by 0.8%
Total government employment in January rose by 440 persons or 0.8 per cent year on year due to the hiring of temporary employees, data released...
Marginally higher number of civil servants
Government employment rose by 37 workers, or 0.1 per cent, year-on-year in October, reaching 52,513 people, the statistical service (Cystat) said on Thursday. The number...
Civil servants want return to remote work
The civil servants’ union Pasydy on Friday called for a return to remote work wherever possible within the public sector. The union’s call comes as...
Our View: Radical overhaul needed of number employed in civil service
The finance ministry has told the legislature that the government would gradually stop hiring seasonal workers and staff on contracts for a finite period, which...
Our View: Government should be looking to cut payroll, not expand it
Last week it was reported that the government had prepared the paperwork for advertising 700 positions in the broader public service. The jobs were at...
