Our View: Radical overhaul needed of number employed in civil service
The finance ministry has told the legislature that the government would gradually stop hiring seasonal workers and staff on contracts for a finite period, which...
PASYDY
State health workers on board with expanding working hours
State doctors and nurses on Monday said they were on board with an idea pitched by their union, Pasydy, on expanding the working hours of...
Pasydy union elects new head
Stratis Matheou was on Wednesday elected as the new head of civil servants’ union Pasydy. Matheou, 65, was voted as the new general secretary of...
Civil servants to take pay cuts case to ECHR
The head of the civil servants union Pasydy said on Tuesday they intend to take recourse with the European Court of Human Rights over pay...
Unions call for action after ambulance nurse injured
The nurses branch of public service union Pasydy, and the nurses union Pasyno are calling on the government to implement all necessary measures to ensure...
Coronavirus: One case found at Pasydy nursery
A person infected with the coronavirus has been detected at the Pasydy kindergarten next to the finance ministry in Nicosia, the health ministry announced on...
Nurses set to strike next Wednesday due to delay in new hirings
Nurses in public hospitals island wide are set to strike on Wednesday over understaffing while doctors on Friday demanded further clarifications before they accept a...
Coronavirus: Pasydy says back-to-work notice gave parents no warning
Unions representing public-sector workers have slammed the government for what they say is an out-of-the-blue change in policy that will force them to return to...
Civil servants vow to fight court’s ‘bizarre’ decision on pay cuts
The main union representing civil servants vowed on Monday to “fight on” to overturn a decision last Friday by the supreme court denying them retroactive...
Our View: Privileged public employees showing their worst side over crisis
For most working people the measures imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus have turned their lives upside down. Many are without work because...
Coronavirus: Civil service union dismisses employers’ call for pay cuts
The main government workers’ union, Pasydy, on Friday dismissed as unacceptable, calls by employers for pay cuts in the public sector as part of measures...
Government makes second attempt to reform civil service
Three government bills on the reform of the civil service aspire to create a new culture and a more efficient organisation, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides...
Civil servants demand new pension plan
Civil servants including teachers and police personnel called on Friday for talks with the government over a new pension plan, warning they would not agree...
Nurses to strike Wednesday over bullying, staff shortages
Public nurses will go on strike on Wednesday from noon to 2pm at all general hospitals to protest incidents of violence against health professionals and...
Second state doctors’ union warns of industrial action
State doctors represented by civil servants’ union Pasydy warned on Friday they would take action over delays in talks on incentives for public sector specialists,...
Public must see that social workers are not above the law
THE REACTION by social welfare workers to the findings of the Ombudswoman’s investigation into the circumstances of the suicide of a 15-year-old boy last September...
Public service unions call for dialogue on reforms
PUBLIC service unions on Friday called for dialogue with the government over reforms with some arguing that it was not completed while others saying they...
State doctors say A&E strike still going ahead but they’ll enter dialogue in the meantime
State doctors’ union Pasyki, said on Friday its members who work in accident and emergency departments (A&Es) would go on a 24-hour strike on July...
Ten days on, air traffic staff still have gaping hole in ceiling, they say
THE air traffic control centre in Nicosia, where part of the ceiling collapsed on June 13 remains unrepaired, the Pancyprian public sector union (Pasydy) said...
Public being misled over civil service pay cuts, Pasydy says
Some quarters are churning the rumour mill, deliberately misleading the public with grossly inflated estimates about the cost to taxpayers from a court decision court...
