#Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA)

Sek union on Friday urged President Nikos Christodoulides to improve labour relations across the job market, while expanding benefits such as the cost of living allowance (CoLA) and provident funds. ...

A deal over the cost of living allowance (CoLA) appeared to be inching closer on Thursday after three unions gave the thumbs up to the latest proposal. Sek, Deok and ...

Trade unions on Thursday gave a thumbs-down to a mediation proposal by the government for a new deal on the cost of living allowance (CoLA), while employers grudgingly agreed to ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Wednesday said it is not satisfied with the compromise proposal on the cost of living allowance (CoLa) providing for a small ...

A slew of meetings are underway this week to discuss the government’s compromising proposal on the cost of living allowance (CoLA). On Tuesday, four trade unions were having a ...

The government is expected to submit a compromising proposal on the cost of living allowance (CoLA) before the end of the month, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Thursday. With ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou Some 200 workers at three Paphos hotels called off a strike on Thursday evening, hours after their walkout, following a deal with employers over the ...

Unions refuse to accept defeat on the issue of CoLA. Having failed to force any change to the existing regime, which provides for an adjustment of wages at 50 per cent ...

Consultations are due to restart next week on reinstatement of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), Sek union general secretary Andreas Matsas said on Monday. Matsas told CyBC that the fact that ...

About three out of four workers are estimated to participate in a nationwide strike next week to demand the full restoration of cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), Peo trade union secretary said ...

Minister of Labour, Kyriacos Koushos, will hold a new meeting withtrade unions and employers’ organisations over CoLA on Tuesday. The meeting is being held in an ongoing an attempt to ...

IF HE has made a full recovery from illness and returns to work on Tuesday, the first thing the labour minister Kyriakos Koushos would have to do is make a ...

Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos on Monday said he was pessimistic a solution could be found to resolve the ongoing spat between unions and employers over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA). Koushos ...

Minister of Labour, Kyriakos Kousios, will hold a meeting on the cost-of-living adjustment (CoLA) on Monday, with representatives from the Cyprus chamber of commerce (Kebe) and the employers and industrialists’ ...

A widespread feature in today’s labour market of most advanced economies are shortages, notwithstanding the slowdown of economic growth, due to the pandemic and the Ukraine war. The main ...

A compromise over CoLA (cost of living allowance) seems unlikely at the moment, Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos said on Monday after a meeting between unions and employers. He said all ...

Unions and employers brace for fight over wage rises Unions and employers’ organisations are on a collision course over the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which they are set to ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) said on Wednesday that they are disappointed and “deeply concerned” by statements from unions Sek and Peo to mobilise their workers if the cost-of-living ...

Despite the government’s attempts to gather proposals to tackle rising prices and inflation, some are already expressing their discontent over the expected outcome and point fingers at the government’...

PEO and Deok trade unions are seeking the full restoration of the cost of living allowance (Cola), the reduction of VAT and introduction of price ceilings amid the rising inflation ...

President Nicos Anastasiades recognised that rising inflation is an ongoing issue, but said the fact there is a cost-of-living-allowance (CoLA) in Cyprus at least in part compensates loss of income ...

Increases in basic salaries in January through the Cost of Living Allowance (Cola) are an absolute necessity given the current spike in the price of energy, goods and services, unions ...

Workers at the Tymbou (Ercan) airport and ‘civil aviation’ in north went on a work stoppage on Monday in protest over the freeze for four months the cost-of-living increment paid ...