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...
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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,...
Petrides: failure to pass public service reforms will be a message that we’re fine with broken system
The cabinet on Friday approved the five revised bills on the public service reforms which have been re-tabled before parliament to vote, Undersecretary to the...
Supreme Court dismisses accusations it acted like a trade union
The Supreme Court did not act as a trade union in advising parliament that including judges, the attorney-general, and his deputy, in a government bill...
Georgiades will try to win over new House finance committee to help push reforms
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades was quoted on Sunday as saying he would be doing his best to win over the new House finance committee so...
‘Midway through transforming Cyprus’, reforms official says
Structural reforms act as a catalyst for the credibility of the economy and investor confidence, Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday. Petrides...
Public service CoLA freeze to continue until 2018
Persons employed in the broader public sector (central government and semi-governmental organisations) will continue not receiving Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) until 2018. However automatic...
Special levy abolition will put €80m back into the economy, president says
THE abolition of the special levy on salaries will return back to workers’ pockets some €80m President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday night at the...
