Palace appoints new SGO boards, emphasis on women
The cabinet on Thursday announced the names of the new members of the boards of semi-governmental organisations (SGO), with the government spokesman stressing that an...
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Government signs deal with unions pegging payroll to growth
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on Wednesday signed an agreement with SEK and PEO, Cyprus’s main trade unions, a new collective agreement which links future pay...
Semi-state pay freeze to end Wednesday
THE government and trade unions are on Wednesday set to sign a deal on pay rises for people employed in semi-governmental organisations (SGOs) and local...
Our View: Collective agreements for SGOs makes no economic sense
THE AGREEMENT reached between the government and the unions, regarding pay rises at semi-governmental organisations (SGO) and local authorities will be signed on Wednesday. The...
Our View: SGOs are run like workers’ cooperatives
AN AMOUNT close to €180 million was wiped off the CyTA employees’ pension fund between 2009 and 2013 because of bad investments, said the Auditor-general’s...
Parties accuse government of partisan SGO appointments
Successful candidates for the boards of semi-government organisations (SGOs) were not chosen from political party lists, but were appointed based on their academic qualifications and...
AKEL will table bill to end SGO sell-off
By Angelos Anastasiou Opposition AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said on Saturday he would be tabling a bill to end the privatisations process for semi-government organisations...
Georgiades seeks to assure MPs on semi-state sell off
By Elias Hazou A bill governing the establishment and running of state-owned and semi-public enterprises does not pertain to organisations slated to be privatised, finance...
Cabinet approves mechanism for decrees facilitating privatisations
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a mechanism to issue executive decrees relating to the privatisation of semi-government organisations (SGOs), on the basis of a road map...
Politicians to blame for SGO militancy
By Loucas Charalambous IT WOULD be a big mistake to place the responsibility for the mob violence, bullying and other excesses committed last Monday outside...
Protest at parliament noisy but peaceful
By Peter Stevenson Parliament was surrounded on Thursday by hundreds of protestors during the plenum session to vote on the privatisation bill, with employees from...
Our View: Stop the revolting bullies
THE VIOLENT and thuggish behaviour outside the House of Representatives by Electricity Authority workers was shocking. Behaving like football hooligans on the rampage, demonstrators hurled...
Our View: It’s all about pensions, stupid
THERE seems to be no end in sight to the saga of SGO privatisations. Yesterday, port workers returned to work but kept an overtime ban...
Dromolaxia case highlights extent of SGO plunder
By Loucas Charalambous THE FINDINGS of the investigation into the scandal of the investment by the CyTA pension fund in the Dromolaxia development project has...
SGO choices were based on ‘strict criteria’ palace says
By George Psyllides THE CABINET on Tuesday appointed the new board members to state organisations, rejecting suggestions of horse trading among coalition partners. “The selection,...
Our View: Jobs for the boys as always at SGOs
IF CONFIRMATION were needed that very little ever changes in the Cyprus political scene, it was provided in the last few days by the party...
New SGO appointments to be unveiled Tuesday
By Elias Hazou THE NEW appointees to the coveted boards of semi-governmental organisations (SGOs) are to be unveiled on Tuesday, with all eyes on who...
‘No more jobs for the boys’
By George Psyllides President Nicos Anastasiades yesterday met coalition partners to try and tackle the thorny issue of appointments to the new boards of the...
Unions demand exemption for EAC from privatisation
By Peter Stevenson PROTESTERS on Wednesday called on the government not to include the Electricity Authority (EAC) in plans to privatise semi-government organisations (SGO), sending...
Semi government unions to take measures
Semi-government organisation (SGO) unions will strike within the next 10 days in protest over privatisation plans, necessary for the release of the next tranche of...