#illegal employment

The labour inspection service will carry out checks across the construction industry next month, targeting undeclared workers. The inspection service said the campaign was intended to raise awareness among employers ...

Complaints regarding the hiring of workers through temporary employment agencies “are linked to slave trade and human trafficking”, the House labour committee chairman and Disy MP Giorgos Koukoumas, said on ...

The number of inspectors at the labour and social insurance ministry, clamping down on illegal or undeclared work will be doubled, said Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas. There were currently eight ...

The number of inspectors responsible for tackling undeclared and illegal work will be doubled following cabinet approval, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas affirmed on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

The labour ministry’s inspectors identified four undeclared employees in the education sector and nine in retail businesses, imposing fines totalling €25,000. In the education sector, inspectors carried out checks at 63 ...

Thirteen people were arrested during an operation targeting undeclared work, the police confirmed on Tuesday. The operation, conducted in collaboration with inspectors from the labour ministry took place in the ...

Eight people were arrested in Larnaca on Tuesday for illegally employing seven construction workers, police said on Wednesday. “An investigation was carried out by the police and the labour ministry ...

Police conducted a coordinated operation in Ayia Napa on Tuesday evening aimed at combating sexual exploitation, which led to the discovery of nine cases of illegal employment. “Members of the ...

A fine of €156,000 was imposed on 24 employers for illegally employing migrants, following an investigation by the Aliens and Immigration Service (YAM) conducted between April 25 and May 2. “A total of 20 cases ...

Police arrested nine individuals on Thursday in the Larnaca district as part of an operation targeting illegal employment and the unauthorised hiring of foreign nationals. The operation focused on construction ...

Authorities on Tuesday arrested five people suspected of illegally residing in Cyprus and for illegal employment, during a sweep operation in the old town of Nicosia. In a statement, the ...

Four people were remanded over illegal employment and residency in Paphos on Thursday morning. The migrants now face deportation. Police said that while their residency permits had expired, the four ...

Seven people were arrested on Thursday, March 6, in Ormidia following a joint operation by the British bases police and the Republic’s authorities. The operation aimed to combat modern slavery, ...

The Paphos district court on Tuesday remanded a 27-year-old woman for three days to facilitate an investigation into allegations of forgery, impersonation, circulation of a false document, obtaining registration through ...

If the issue of undeclared work is not dealt with soon, it will become a much bigger problem, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday. The minister was speaking at ...

Police spokesman Christos Andreou said police have been conducting checks at hotels in accordance with procedures, following complaints from the hoteliers’ association (Pasyxe) about raids causing panic. Andreou, in a ...

It defies belief that more than two dozen police officers raided a hotel in Paphos to check for workers employed illegally. Such a large number of police officers would not ...

Around eight per cent of the workforce, or 40,000 people are illegally employed in Cyprus resulting in a loss of revenue to the social insurance fund of €10 million a year, Labour ...

Two other local actions are under discussion in tandem with the government’s decision to suspend processing of Syrian migrants’ automatic refugee status, it emerged on Tuesday. These include stepped-up ...

The death of the Bangladeshi migrant worker has revealed “in the most tragic way” how certain rings continue to profit off cheap labour and illegal employment, Akel charged on Thursday. ...

Police in Paphos made two arrests on Wednesday for cases involving illegal employment and residence in the Republic. In the first case, around 9.10pm immigration service officers following a tip-off ...

Members of the human trafficking police unit in collaboration with the labour ministry’s inspection unit are investigating a 40-year-old farm owner in the Nicosia district accused of illegally employing ...

Police said on Friday they had arrested 12 people for illegally working and residing in Cyprus. The arrests took place on Thursday afternoon as police raided three properties in the Limassol ...

Six women who were employed in a Paphos hotel after submitting fake personal documents have been arrested, police said on Friday. Officers carried out a check at the hotel following ...