Posts tagged with "civil service"

President calls for objective assessment of civil servants Cyprus

President calls for objective assessment of civil servants

September 10th, 2018 Quantifiable assessment criteria should be introduced into the civil service so that employees are evaluated objectively, eradicating cronyism, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday. He made the comments while meeting with officials of the Public Service Commission (PSC), who handed him the annual report on the body’s...
Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service Cyprus

Code of conduct launched to stop harassment in the civil service

July 11th, 2018 Ombudswoman Maria Lottides presented on Wednesday a code of conduct her office has prepared to prevent and deal with sexual harassment within the civil service. She said at present her office is looking into eight sexual harassment cases which have been pending since 2015 and highlighted how the courts have previously taken the...
Government workers up 2.1% in Q1 Cyprus

Government workers up 2.1% in Q1

June 14th, 2018 The number of staff working for general government rose an annual 2.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year, to 61,434, the statistical service said. The increase in the number of general government workers in the first three months of the year was on a 2.4 per cent annual increase in the number of central government workers, to...
Probe to be launched into work-shy government employee Cyprus

Probe to be launched into work-shy government employee

February 2nd, 2018   An investigation will be launched into reports that a public works department employee has been repeatedly skipping work to laze around on Larnaca seafront, the head of the service said on Friday. According to the director of the public works department, Chrystalla Malloupa, a meeting is to take place next week where the...
Ex-civil servant jailed for demanding €200,000 bribe Cyprus

Ex-civil servant jailed for demanding €200,000 bribe

January 22nd, 2018 A 65-year-old former civil servant was sentenced to seven months in prison for corruption after being found guilty for demanding €200,000 in kickbacks from a supplier of medical equipment to favour their tender bid. According to daily Politis, the man, who was the head of the maintenance department of the state electromechanical...
December salary payment dates announced Cyprus

December salary payment dates announced

November 23rd, 2017 Next month’s public sector salaries will be paid on December 14 followed by the 13th salary and pensions a couple of weeks later, it was announced on Thursday. In a bid to stimulate the market, December salaries will be paid on the 14th and 13th salaries and pensions on the 27th, the finance ministry said.  ...
New limits on civil servants’ unpaid leave Cyprus

New limits on civil servants’ unpaid leave

June 12th, 2017   The finance ministry has tabled amendments to limit unpaid leave in the public sector for educational purposes, it was announced on Monday. The House finance committee heard that presently unpaid leave for educational purposes is not deducted from civil servants’ pensions nor does it affect their annual pay increments, so...
Mouse empties government office News in Brief

Mouse empties government office

May 22nd, 2017 A mouse left a civil service office unmanned for a day as the staff working there reportedly refused to share their space with the rodent and took a day’s leave until the animal was caught. According to Phileleftheros, three civil servants – two women and a man – told their supervisor a few days ago that they had noticed mouse...
Civil servant union chief against political postings Cyprus

Civil servant union chief against political postings

May 10th, 2017 The head of Pasydy civil servants’ union, Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Wednesday that no civil servant, regardless of their rank, should hold a political party office. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC radio, Hadjipetrou said that a 2015 law allowing civil servants to take up party posts as long as they obtain permission from the...
Law on civil servants switching to private sector reviewed Cyprus

Law on civil servants switching to private sector reviewed

March 8th, 2017 Parliament is reviewing the law regulating the employment of former public servants in the private sector in light of the recent transfers of the Limassol and Larnaca harbour masters to companies with related activities. House ethics committee chairman, Disy MP Zaharias Zahariou, said it appeared that the law passed in 2007, though...
Nurses to get higher entry-level wages, unions' in-fighting (Update) Cyprus

Nurses to get higher entry-level wages, unions' in-fighting (Update)

March 3rd, 2017 HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamborides announced on Friday that the government has granted state nurses their long-standing demand for higher entry-level wages to match their university level qualifications. The agreement was achieved during a meeting hosted by President Nicos Anastasiades, where he discussed with delegations of the...
Gender pay gap to close in 2029 Cyprus

Gender pay gap to close in 2029

January 17th, 2017 Cyprus is ranked 12th out of 26 countries when it comes to where the gender pay gap will close most quickly, a study published by research and publishing organisation Expert Market said. The gender pay gap between men and women across the EU currently stands at around 17 per cent although this figure varies by country with many...
Government mulls extending hiring freeze to offset reform setback Business

Government mulls extending hiring freeze to offset reform setback

December 20th, 2016 The government is considering an indefinite extension of the hiring freeze in the civil service imposed as part of fiscal consolidation efforts four years ago, the finance minister has said. In an interview with the Cyprus Business Mail, Harris Georgiades said the freeze would be an attempt to partly offset the fiscal impact of the...
Parliament rejects civil service reform (Update) Cyprus

Parliament rejects civil service reform (Update)

December 9th, 2016 PARLIAMENT on Friday rejected five of six government bills on civil service reform. The bill on secondment was referred to the House finance committee for further discussion, while four of the remaining bills only garnered the votes of 15 Disy MPs and three of Solidarity. The bill on increases of the state payroll was only supported...
Employers denounce pay increases for civil servants Cyprus

Employers denounce pay increases for civil servants

November 28th, 2016   Planned pay increases for civil servants, slated to inflate the state payroll by €75 million over 2017 and 2018, should be axed, Employers and Industrialists’ Federation (OEV) chief Christos Michaelides said in an open letter to the leaders of parliamentary parties. He said the €75 million should be directed towards...
Our View: Forget Akel’s objections, public sector reform is crucial Opinion

Our View: Forget Akel’s objections, public sector reform is crucial

October 9th, 2016 DESPITE all the hard work that has been put into preparing the bills for the reform of the public service by the government, it is looking increasingly unlikely they will secure the majority needed for approval by the legislature. It will be a disaster for the economy if the bills, to which even the civil servants’ union Pasydy had...
Growth in civil service gains pace Cyprus

Growth in civil service gains pace

September 6th, 2016 Growth in the public sector has gained pace in 2015 as the hiring of employees increased in contrast to the declining number of retirements, the Public Service Commission (PSC) said in its annual report on Tuesday. The PSC, which is charged with monitoring hiring and promotions in the public service, said in its 2015 report that the...
Civil servant awarded ‘moral damages’ in sexual harassment case Cyprus

Civil servant awarded ‘moral damages’ in sexual harassment case

August 29th, 2016 Taxpayers will have to foot €22,000 in moral damages awarded to a female civil servant who sued her head of the department for sexual harassment and the state for failing to protect her after the fact. The application was filed in the Paphos labour court in 2009. It concerned offences committed in the first half of 2006. The...
Government forced to rethink plans for civil service reform featured

Government forced to rethink plans for civil service reform

June 27th, 2016 Discussion of a package of six government bills, designed to overhaul appraisal, promotion and transfers in the public sector, went into start-stop mode on Monday with the administration announcing it was withdrawing the regulations it submitted to parliament regarding a new system assessing the performance of public-sector...
Civil servant numbers rise in Q1 by 146 to 63,555, Cystat says Cyprus

Civil servant numbers rise in Q1 by 146 to 63,555, Cystat says

June 13th, 2016 The number of people employed directly or indirectly by the government was on average 63,555 in the first quarter of the year, 146 higher compared to the respective quarter of 2015, which was the lowest since the financial crisis, the statistical service said. The number of workers employed in the wider public sector in the first...
Improved job security for state contract workers Cyprus

Improved job security for state contract workers

April 13th, 2016 The cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill regulating the matter of temporary workers in the public sector. The bill affects 1,537 temporary workers in the civil service on fixed term or 15-day contracts. From these, 1,175 serve in the health sector. They will be converted to six-month contracts. It is expected to be approved by MPs on...
Cabinet approves civil service reform bills Cyprus

Cabinet approves civil service reform bills

August 26th, 2015 By Angelos Anastasiou Five government bills reforming the civil service in terms of hiring, appraisal, promotion and remuneration were approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Undersecretary to the President and Reform Commissioner Constantinos Petrides said. Speaking after the cabinet session, Petrides said implementation of the bills,...
A fairer more responsive civil service on its way Cyprus

A fairer more responsive civil service on its way

July 6th, 2015 By Jean Christou Legislation to reform the public service into “something not experienced until now in Cyprus” is in its final stages and will be submitted to parliament at the end of the year at the latest, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday. “It will be a completely different system of public administration to the...
Changes to civil service pension payments Cyprus

Changes to civil service pension payments

June 15th, 2015 By Angelos Anastasiou A PROPOSED bill to use April 1, 1991 as the start date for calculating the average career salary for civil servants, on which pensions will be paid after retirement, will be prepared by the government, deputy House finance committee chairman Angelos Votsis said on Monday. A 2012 bill overhauled the way the...
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