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...
PASYDY
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...
