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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...
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...