Posts tagged with "Employment"

It’s finally an employee’s market in Cyprus Guest Columnist

It’s finally an employee’s market in Cyprus

January 20th, 2019 By Katerina Andreou For all you Job seekers, restless professionals or simply curious people, 2019 is here and let’s take a look at what the local job market is doing. 2018 saw the Cyprus job market rather sluggishly get going, then subtly pick up pace around summer and then spike dramatically in the second half of the year. At HR...
Too many employers ignore a key concept: employee contentment Opinion

Too many employers ignore a key concept: employee contentment

August 19th, 2018 By Katerina Andreou The employer-employee relationship can be said to be transactional and a mutual investment. Corporate words and very clinical. Or are they? Like any relationship, for success there absolutely needs to be happiness on both sides. Happiness, most would say, is the definition of success. It should be that simple...
Economy employs 4% more workers in Q1, Cystat says Cyprus

Economy employs 4% more workers in Q1, Cystat says

June 14th, 2018 The number of persons employed in the first quarter of the year rose 4 per cent, to 391,701, compared to January to March last year, the statistical service said citing a flash estimate. The number of employees was 343,101 and the number of self-employed was 48,600, Cystat said in a statement. The largest increase in employment was in...
Discussions on minimum wage will start, minister says Cyprus

Discussions on minimum wage will start, minister says

May 16th, 2018   Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Wednesday that a dialogue would be launched with stakeholders for the introduction of a national minimum wage. One of the reasons this has not been made possible yet, the minister said, is high unemployment levels. “But just as we are headed to conditions of full employment we...
Hotel jobs unfilled as unions criticise poor wages Cyprus

Hotel jobs unfilled as unions criticise poor wages

May 3rd, 2018 Hotels offer low wages and then complain they can’t find staff to work for them, unions charged on Wednesday, as the industry called for allowing students from non-EU countries to be legally employed in the hotel sector. The Cyprus hotels association (Pasyxe) and the association of Cyprus tourist enterprises (Stek) said they were...
Government employment rises Cyprus

Government employment rises

April 10th, 2018 The number of people employed by the government was up by 3.4 per cent in March on an annual basis, driven mainly by the hiring of hourly-paid casual staff, according to data released by the Statistical Service on Tuesday. The data showed that the government labour force increased by 1,724 people or 3.4 per cent in March 2018 compared...
OEV seeks end to public sector pay rises just before elections Cyprus

OEV seeks end to public sector pay rises just before elections

March 21st, 2018   A moratorium on negotiating and concluding collective labour agreements in the public service six months before an election, is one of the suggestions included in a memorandum sent by leading employers to the new government, they said on Wednesday. The Employers and Industrialists federation (OEV) laid out a roadmap for the...
Over 700 new public sector jobs Cyprus

Over 700 new public sector jobs

March 14th, 2018 Cabinet on Thursday approved more than 700 job posts in the civil service for permanent and hourly paid posts in a bid to fill part of the vacant posts created due to the freeze in hiring during the economic crisis. According to government spokesman, Prodromos Prodromou, the cabinet approved 436 job posts in state services, 211 posts...
Job fair for those wanting to work for casino Cyprus

Job fair for those wanting to work for casino

March 14th, 2018 Melco Group announced on Wednesday it is organising a career fair for those interested in working for the company’s integrated casino resort, City of Dreams Mediterranean. Melco’s first career fair will take place on March 16 and 17 in Limassol. Candidates are required to be 21 years of age or above in order to apply for...
Casino announces first wave of 500 jobs Business

Casino announces first wave of 500 jobs

February 26th, 2018 Melco Resorts & Entertainment, the company behind City of Dreams Mediterranean, the integrated casino resort which is set to open in 2021 in Limassol, announced on Monday some of its first 500 job opportunities. The company said that it is currently recruiting ‘aspiring professionals for the temporary and satellite casinos...
Who works the most hours every year? World in numbers

Who works the most hours every year?

January 9th, 2018 Across the globe, people are firmly back in the working groove after all the fun, relaxation and overindulgence of the holiday season. This year, some workers are going to have a far longer shift than others. According to the OECD, Mexicans work the most hours out of any country with 2,246 on average. That's 467 more than an average...
HIV carriers hampered by prejudice, MPs told Health

HIV carriers hampered by prejudice, MPs told

October 2nd, 2017   HIV carriers face huge problems mainly because of prejudice and the House human rights committee said it intended to ask the government to grant them a special allowance, it emerged on Monday. The head of the committee, Disy’s Stella Kyriakidou, said HIV carriers faced a lot of prejudice, fear, discrimination and...
Labour costs rise 0.4% in Cyprus against 1.8% in euro area, Eurostat says Cyprus

Labour costs rise 0.4% in Cyprus against 1.8% in euro area, Eurostat says

September 15th, 2017 Total nominal hourly labour costs rose in Cyprus 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the respective quarter last year, which was the third lowest in the EU, the European Commission’s statistical office said. Nominal wages in Cyprus rose 0.5 per cent in April to June compared to a year before while costs other...
Vacancies up 27% in Q1 driven by construction, Cystat says Cyprus

Vacancies up 27% in Q1 driven by construction, Cystat says

June 14th, 2017 The number of vacancies in the first quarter of the year rose an annual 27 per cent to 3,890 and more than doubled compared to October to December last year, the statistical service said. The vacancy ratio in the first three months of the year was 1.2 per cent, compared with 0.6 per cent the quarter before and 1 per cent in the first...
Q1 employment level up 3.4% in Cyprus, Eurostat says Cyprus

Q1 employment level up 3.4% in Cyprus, Eurostat says

June 14th, 2017 Employment levels in Cyprus rose in the first quarter of 2017 an annual 3.4 per cent, which was the third highest in the euro area after Malta’s 6 per cent and a 3.5 per cent in Ireland, the European Commission’s statistical office said. Compared with Q4 2016, employment level in Cyprus rose 0.7 per cent -as much as in Spain,...
Funding approved for new employment scheme Cyprus

Funding approved for new employment scheme

April 12th, 2017 A total of €6.7 million was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday for the incentive scheme to boost employment. The money will be used to provide for the placement of 800 young people aged 25 to 29 who are currently unemployed and are not enrolled in training and education. For this the Council of Ministers has authorised the labour...
Hotels face staff shortages as second record year expected Cyprus

Hotels face staff shortages as second record year expected

April 10th, 2017 While Cyprus’s hospitality industry is preparing for another record in tourist arrivals, it is also facing a shortage of skilled labour which forces hotels to poach staff from other units, something unions describe as a by-product of opportunistic practices of the past. While unions and employers agreed last year to renew collective...
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...
Only 22 per cent of managers in Cyprus are women Cyprus

Only 22 per cent of managers in Cyprus are women

March 6th, 2017 Women account for less than a quarter of managers in Germany, Italy and Cyprus, all standing at 22 per cent, and significantly behind the EU average of 35 per cent, Eurostat said on Monday. The largest share of women among managerial positions was recorded in Latvia, the only member state where women were a majority at 53 per...
Q3 vacancies more than double, economy adds 16,000 new jobs Cyprus

Q3 vacancies more than double, economy adds 16,000 new jobs

December 14th, 2016 The number of vacancies rose in the third quarter to 4,989, more than doubling compared with the respective quarter of 2015, as the economy generated 16,140 jobs in a year, the statistical service said. Compared with the third quarter of 2015, the increase in vacancies resulted mainly from 1,079 more jobs offered in the hospitality...
Workers in general government drop by 1,387 in Q3 Cyprus

Workers in general government drop by 1,387 in Q3

December 14th, 2016 The number of workers employed by the general government and state-controlled corporations fell in the third quarter to 63,347, reflecting a decrease of 1,387 compared with the second quarter, and by 159 compared with the respective quarter of 2015, the statistical service said. The quarterly drop in the number of total workers...
Job vacancies rise 4.1% in Q2, Cystat says Cyprus

Job vacancies rise 4.1% in Q2, Cystat says

September 13th, 2016 The number of job vacancies rose 4.1 per cent in the second quarter to 3,389 compared to the respective period of 2015 and 11 per cent compared to January to March, the statistical service said. In April to June, the number of vacancies increased the most in hospitality and manufacturing where they rose by 363 and 205 to 1,242 and 371...
Britain eyeing work permits to control EU immigration - interior minister featured

Britain eyeing work permits to control EU immigration - interior minister

September 11th, 2016 By William James Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday she was looking at a work permits system to control migration from the European Union, responding to Brexit voters' demand for tighter border controls. Although formal negotiations on leaving the EU have yet to begin, Britain is searching for a way to satisfy...
Britain needs new race strategy as report shows 'entrenched' unfairness World

Britain needs new race strategy as report shows 'entrenched' unfairness

August 18th, 2016 Ethnic minorities face "entrenched and far-reaching" inequality and, combined with a rise in hate crime since Britain voted to leave the European Union, the government must come up with a long-term strategy, an independent report said on Thursday. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a public body, found that the life...
New SEK Secretary General wants barriers to individual contracts and outsourcing Cyprus

New SEK Secretary General wants barriers to individual contracts and outsourcing

June 18th, 2016 The use of individual contracts and outsourcing as forms of employment expands uncontrollably, both in the private sector and the broad public sector, threatening labour peace, Andreas Matsas, the new Secretary General of SEK, tells the Cyprus News Agency. He says the trade union is putting pressure for these two forms of employment...
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