Bank workers union to demonstrate over provident funds
Bank employees’ union Etyk will hold a demonstration on February 1, because the government has failed to keep its promises, it announced on Tuesday. Etyk...
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Our View: Banks should be covering their own losses, not the state
General secretary of the bank employees’ union Etyk Christos Panayides did not inspire much public sympathy when he was speaking on a morning radio show...
Georgiades says Etyk ignores favours done by government
With its decision to march to the presidential palace to protest a cabinet decision to allocate more money to compensate members of provident funds for...
Etyk marches to presidential palace for more compensation
By Stelios Orphanides Bank workers’ union Etyk asked its members to march to the presidential palace on Tuesday to protest the government’s decision to allocate...
Cabinet earmarks €20m to compensate Etyk members in major U-turn
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said that taxpayers will have to pay additional €20m to compensate members of provident funds for their losses in the 2013...
Hellenic Bank to cut 200 jobs with retirement scheme
Hellenic Bank, Cyprus’s third largest lender, is offering its workers a voluntary retirement scheme in an attempt to cut cost which could have a €40m...
Etyk angered over BOC’s alleged plan to outsource NPLs
Bank workers’ union Etyk said that Bank of Cyprus has decided to set up a non-performing loans platform in cooperation with another, unnamed company. The...
Etyk threatens action over provident funds, slams Fiscal Council chairman
BANK employees’ union Etyk said that it is considering ways to pressure the government to fully compensate members of provident funds of the two major...
Etyk bashes Georgiades on pension funds, wants a word with President
Bank workers’ union Etyk said on Wednesday that the rejection by the finance minister of its demands for complete compensation of provident funds for losses...
APS aims at reducing Hellenic’s NPLs to 15% over the medium-term
APS Holdings aims at reducing the ratio of Hellenic Bank’s delinquent portfolio to a quarter of current levels possibly in the medium-term, and sees “opportunities”...
Georgiades rejects bank workers’ provident funds demands
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told bank workers’ union Etyk on Friday not to expect compensation over and above what they have already been promised for...
Our View: Etyk pension fund demand is an outrage
BANK EMPLOYEES union Etyk announced yesterday that it was given “full support” on the issue of the bailed in pension funds by Diko, Akel and...
Etyk says provident fund compensation lacks compared to public sector pensions
By Stelios Orphanides Bank workers’ union Etyk has criticised the government’s decision to cap compensation to members of provident funds for losses sustained in the...
Labour Minister was instrumental in Hellenic, union deal
Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou was instrumental in brokering an agreement between bank employees’ union Etyk and Hellenic Bank over secondments to the lender’s asset-management arm,...
Etyk calls off bank strike early
Bank workers union Etyk said on Tuesday it was suspending a strike at Hellenic Bank’s delinquent loan manager following the intervention of Labour Minister Zeta...
Etyk announces 48-hour strike at APS, Hellenic’s NPL manager
Bank workers union Etyk said its members working at fHellenic Bank’s delinquent portfolio manager will hold a 48-hour strike on Monday, the first since it...
Employers blast Hellenic strike, despite union celebration
Employers’ organisations on Friday criticised the bank workers’ union for staging a 24-hour strike at Hellenic over the terms of employment of some 130 people...
Hellenic strike to go ahead
Bank workers’ union Etyk said a 24-hour strike scheduled for Friday at Hellenic Bank was going ahead as planned, blaming the management for digging its...
Hellenic Bank workers to hold strike on Friday
Bank workers union Etyk said Tuesday its board of directors “unanimously” decided to ask members at Hellenic Bank to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday,...
Three unions to strike on Tuesday at the co-op
The members of three unions working at the bailed out Cooperative Central Bank will stage on Tuesday a three-hour warning strike to protest the employer’s...
