Pasydy praises move on permanent posts for contract workers
Civil servants’ union Pasydy welcomed the government’s willingness on Thursday to view positively the permanent appointment of some 4,500 public sector employees currently employed on...
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SEK, PEO Pasydy accept Co-op scheme, slammed by Etyk
By Stelios Orphanides Three unions of the failed state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank agreed Thursday to accept the Co-op’s improved voluntary retirement scheme which bank workers’...
Our View: Anastasiades ends first term with show that economic prudence is over
BEFORE heading to the House of Representatives for his swearing in ceremony today, President Anastasiades will attend another ceremony that will take place at the...
Civil servants’ income slashed by 30 per cent says union boss
Civil servants have seen their income slashed by 30 per cent on average throughout the economic crisis, union Pasydy boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Tuesday....
Union condemns member’s house bombing
Public servants’ union Pasydy on Thursday strongly condemned the bombing of the house of one of its members, a prison warden, on Wednesday morning in...
New limits on civil servants’ unpaid leave
The finance ministry has tabled amendments to limit unpaid leave in the public sector for educational purposes, it was announced on Monday. The House...
Our View: Time to challenge the dictatorship of the unions
The period of union restraint and industrial peace, which lasted a bit longer than the duration of the assistance programme, is now well and truly...
Anastasiades thanks civil servants for their contribution
President Nicos Anastasiades buttered up civil servants on Tuesday saying they had shown exemplary responsibility in the face of the financial crisis, but added they...
Anastasiades hits back at critics, denies lack of engagement
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday hit back at accusations, particularly from Akel, which has supported him at the Cyprus talks, that he was now putting...
Minister calls for ‘popular demand’ to help speed up health reforms
Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Sunday that though the procedures for the reform of the health sector were in the final stages, there were...
Our View: A blatant case of social injustice
PLANS to introduce a national health scheme (Gesy) were dealt a big blow after the public servants’ union Pasydy said that its members would not...
‘Time to stop thinking public workers are of a higher order’
Public service union Pasydy’s demand that its members be exempt from contributing to the national health system (Gesy) sparked fierce reactions on Thursday from the...
Nurses to get higher entry-level wages, unions’ in-fighting (Update)
HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamborides announced on Friday that the government has granted state nurses their long-standing demand for higher entry-level wages to match their university...
Pasydy: “we won’t go down” if Supreme Court finds deductions unconstitutional
Glafkos Hadjipetrou, the general-secretary of civil servants’ union Pasydy, said he expects that “in a matter of months” the Supreme Court will decide on the...
Our View: The return of old habits that led to bankruptcy of the state
EVEN though none of the bills for reforming the public service were approved by the legislature, the provision linking the annual pay rise to the...
Government, Pasydy agree to link pay rises to economic growth (Update)
Finance minister Harris Georgiades and the secretary general of civil servant union Pasydy Glafcos Hadjipetrou signed on Monday an agreement tying the public payroll increase...
Bicommunal trade union forum ‘at disposal of the leaders’
The Cyprus Trade Unions’ Forum, which will convene on January 9, remains at the disposal of the two leaders and their negotiating teams for any...
The ‘strange’ actions of our finance minister
By Loucas Charalambous THE LETTER sent by the European Commission to the finance minister, noting the worrying path that Cyprus’ public finances had started taking...
Pamboridis says he will not allow interference in med school deal
HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Thursday that that it was the government’s obligation to ensure cooperation between the state university and public hospitals and...
Doctors, nurses complain of secrecy in NHS bills
Government doctors and nurses complained on Monday that they were being kept in the dark about two draft bills relating to the adoption of a...
