Shops can stay open on Green Monday
General merchandise stores may operate on Green Monday, the ministry of labour clarified on Thursday. Citing the relevant law, the ministry also said that shop...
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Our View: Deputies have lost the right to the moral high ground over shop opening hours
DESPITE December’s Supreme Court decision, which ruled the legislature-drafted regulations governing shop opening hours unconstitutional, political parties insist on having the main say on the...
Some shop-owners have change of heart over Sunday closing
By Andria Kades IN an about turn, several retailers have decided to remain closed on Sundays despite the defiant tone they set since the beginning...
House to hire legal eagles to fight shop hours bill
By Angelos Anastasiou PARLIAMENT has commissioned a lawyer to fight its battle against the government at the Supreme Court over the right to weigh in...
Council of ministers to discuss shopping hours
The council of ministers will hold their last meeting of the year on Monday at the presidential retreat in Troodos, where they will discuss taking...
Our View: Shop hour dispute threatens the rule of law
THE SEPARATION of powers is an integral part of any well-functioning democratic state that is safeguarded by the constitution. We like to think this is...
Supreme Court rules House shopping law unconstitutional
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favour of the president’s referral of a law regulating shops’ opening hours, voted by parliament in May 2015,...
Shop wrangle extends to sale times
By Angelos Anastasiou THE ROW between the government and small-business unions seems likely to extend farther than shop working hours and into sales periods, the...
House appeals Sunday shopping decree
By Elias Hazou THE House decided on Thursday to appeal to the Supreme Court a government decision to issue a decree allowing shops to remain...
Economist calls new shop hours bill “central planning at its worst”
By Andria Kades The parliament’s May 7, decision to restrict Sunday trading hours was “wrong as it was based on hearsay” and ignored the fact...
Our View: We shouldn’t expect political parties to act responsibly or sensibly
THERE seems to be no end to the farcical goings-on initiated by our legislature which betrays its recklessness and irresponsibility with alarming regularity. It was...
New shop hours bill ‘unconstitutional’ says Omirou
By Andria Kades THE new shop hours proposal is not only discriminatory but seems to be unconstitutional, parliament speaker Yiannakis Omirou said on Wednesday. Speaking...
Our View: Lack of reason set to triumph in shop hours fracas
EVERY new proposal deputies come up with for Sunday shopping is more absurd than the previous one. The latest compromise, which was put forward by...
House edges towards compromise on shop opening hours
By Constantinos Psillides The House labour committee failed once again to reach an agreement on Monday over shop opening hours, paving the way for a...
Decree on shop opening hours extended
By unanimous vote, parliament on Thursday unanimously passed a law extending by two weeks the labour minister’s decree regulating shop opening hours. The minister’s last...
‘Every hour we clock is worth gold’
By Elias Hazou Thousands of people could be out of a job at the stroke of a pen should parliament decide that shops must be...
MPs waffling over Sunday shop hours
By Elias Hazou HAVING failed to achieve anything approximating consensus on whether shops should stay open on Sundays, lawmakers have postponed their decision to Thursday’s...
Consumer groups split over Sunday shop hours
By Andria Kades CONSUMER unions appeared conflicted yesterday over the ongoing shop hours debate and whether they should be open on Sundays. “The draft bill...
Bill on shop hours sent to House
By Angelos Anastasiou THE LABOUR ministry yesterday forwarded the regulations for the working hours of shops to the House of Representatives, after Parliament decided to...
Welcome to the dark ages
I would like to express my gratitude to the great minds of AKEL who today returned Cyprus to the Dark Ages BC (Before Consumers). If...