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...
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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...
Constitutional amendment could stop more public servants reclaiming lost pay, president says
The government is looking into various ways, including amending the constitution, to deal with a court decision that reversed austerity measures imposed on civil servants...
General government staff levels rise 4% in Q2
The number of persons employed by the general government rose an annual 4 per cent in the second quarter of the year to 61,089, the...
Our View: The championing and protection of mediocrity is a scourge
IN 2016, some 93.14 per cent of civil servants received full marks for their work performance. They are evaluated on eight different categories of their...
Fiscal watchdog warns of macroeconomic imbalances
Cyprus’s Fiscal Council, an advisory body tasked with monitoring budget policies, said that the island’s economy continues to have significant imbalances threatening macroeconomic and fiscal...
New law will ‘make public sector more productive’
Parliament on Friday approved a law regulating employee movement in the wider public sector. The bill was one of five submitted by the government aiming...
Our View: Parties have always paid lip service to meritocracy
THE ROW between the auditor-general and the minister of finance, regarding the finance ministry civil servant that also happens to be member of a Disy...
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...
Hiring freeze to be decided on this month, Georgiades says
The government plans to introduce a proposal for an indefinite hiring freeze in the public sector sometime in January, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told state...
Petrides describes political environment as unfavourable for reforms
Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides who oversaw the drafting of a bundle of draft laws to reform the public sector said that the current...
Time running out for reforming civil service, finance minister says (Updated)
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on Monday warned that Cyprus was risking public finances getting out of hand yet again because the delay in pushing...
Number of state employees rises 6.4% in Q2, Cystat says
The number of workers in the wider public sector rose in April to June by 417 in a year or 6.4 per cent to 64,734,...