#Civil servants

It is rare that I praise civil servants in my articles. The failings of public services are well known and reported on regularly, but there are some noticeable exceptions. I ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Tuesday hailed an agreement reached between the government and trade unions regarding low-wage civil servants’ pay as “a positive outcome for everyone.” He added that “...

Discussions regarding low-wage civil servants’ pay continued on Wednesday, with unions and the government exchanging views. The meetings were, as is custom, attended by representatives of three trade unions – Sek, ...

The joint session of the three trade unions, Pasydy, Sek, and Peo, which convened on Tuesday afternoon to make decisions regarding the issue of low wage civil servants, will resume ...

A fourteen-fold increase in civil service positions from what was initially projected has been provided for in the 2024 state budget, the bulk of which are teachers, it emerged on Friday. ...

Discussions will continue on Friday after the finance ministry and representatives of low wage civil servants held a “constructive meeting” on Thursday with the aim of finalising an agreement over ...

Between 70 and 100 workers of the social insurance service went on strike on Tuesday, demanding better promotion prospects and earning potential. These are clerical staff, on the lowest pay scales (A-2...

Low-wage civil servants announced on Saturday their intention to strike on Wednesday, demanding increases in pay. The move was made following a consultation with Central government workers’ union Pasydy on ...

Sexual harassment committed by civil servants will from now on be classed as a standalone offence and investigated differently to other disciplinary offences, under a law parliament passed on Thursday. ...

The independent union of public employees (Asdyk) has called on the finance ministry to write into law protections for public sector workers who wish to work from home. The union ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and trade unions reiterated on Wednesday the need to hire more civil servants after the House finance committee this week refused to approve over 1,800 positions. The ...

Hiring almost 2,000 employees to the civil service would be a step backward, opposition Disy MP and former finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday, a day after the House finance ...

A freeze on civil service pay rises and reductions established in 2012 for salaries over €2,001 a month has been abolished, meaning billions more will be spent from the state budget to ...

Civil servants can start and finish work half an hour earlier after the plenum approved amendments to their working hours on Thursday to alleviate traffic issues. MPs approved the regulations ...

Parliament is set to vote on a bill on Thursday that will amend civil servant working hours in an effort to alleviate traffic issues. The current hours of the public ...

Public servants working on an hourly basis will strike if the collective agreement on their salaries is not renewed at the end of April, labour unions Peo and Sek warned ...

As of January 1, all salary cuts instituted in the public sector back in 2012 will be completely phased out, and this – in conjunction with an anticipated rise in the cost of ...

Thousands of British civil servants are planning for one month of “sustained industrial action” through the winter in an ongoing pay dispute, the head of the Public and Commercial Services ...

Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...

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? On the face of it, ...

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 from their post, saying this ...

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 effectively granted civil-servant status, with the ...

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 committee heard on Wednesday. Its chairman, ...

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 to ‘parliament’ to protest over ...