Almost 5,000 public servants illegally engaged in private sector – audit office
According to a confidential report sent by the audit office to the parliament on April 12, almost 5,000 civil servants and public service employees are...
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Reforms: A race against time
Cyprus hopes to tap some €1.2 billion from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Facility, in exchange for which it pledges to implement a series of...
The protection of a non-existent right is unachievable
YOU ARE probably aware that the decision of the supreme court on the constitutionality of the law by which the salaries in the public sector...
Coronavirus: new decree says public servants must work from home with essential exceptions
Health Minister Costantinos Ioannou has issued a decree saying that government employees and those in the wider public sector must work, where possible, from home...
House passes law incentivising early retirement in public sector
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday, giving incentives to public-sector employees to apply for early retirement without any reduction in their benefits,...
State preparing to counter risk of public service pay cuts being reinstated, Petrides says
The treasury is preparing reaction scenarios should the Supreme Court uphold the ruling of the Administrative Court on the unconstitutionality of cuts in salaries and...
Supreme court to hear public servants’ pay-cuts appeal on Friday
The supreme court will on Friday hear opening statements in an appeal filed by the state against a lower court’s decision to retroactively reimburse civil...
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...
Contract workers protest outside palace
Hundreds of public contract workers called for a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and cabinet members during a protest in front of the presidential palace...
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...
