Refusal to pay social insurance as act of civil disobedience appeal overturned
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of lawyer Michalis Paraskevas who was charged for refusing to pay social insurance contributions as a form of...
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Over 1,000 apply to pay social insurance in instalments
Over 1,000 applications for payment of unpaid social contributions by employers and self-employed individuals in instalments have been received since August 1, when the scheme...
Bill passed for social insurance instalments
Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed a bill allowing the payment of overdue social insurance contributions through 54 monthly instalments instead of the 48 proposed by...
Government submits bill for overdue social insurance payments
The government has submitted a new bill allowing the payment of overdue social insurance contributions through 48 monthly instalments instead of 36 it had previously...
Doctors busted in Paphos pensioners’ scam
IN the latest scam involving the medical profession, two private sector doctors were arrested in Paphos on Friday in connection with a case of forged...
Social Insurance Fund will honour promises, labour minister says (Update-1)
The Social Insurance Fund will be in position to honour its promise to pensioners without resorting to an increase of contributions or reducing pensions and...
New scheme to keep social insurance debtors out of jail
A government bill enabling people to pay in monthly instalments their dues to the Social Insurance Fund will be voted on at the plenum this...
Unpaid state fines total more than 200m euros
By Evie Andreou The state is owed more than €200m in outstanding fines, the majority of them for social insurance contributions, criminal offences and traffic...
Stay of execution for social insurance backsliders
By Elias Hazou A government bill providing for the payment in instalments of dues to the social security fund (SIF) is to be tabled to...
Cyprus in EU top ten for undeclared work
By Jean Christou Cyprus is among the top ten EU countries with the highest rates of undeclared work with a percentage of around 25 per...
One in five construction workers undeclared
One in five workers in the construction sector do not have social insurance, Labour and Social Insurance Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Saturday, urging contractors...
State will try to facilitate troubled SMEs
The government will look into whether it can help small and medium businesses survive by allowing them to pay overdue VAT and social insurance through...
Football clubs must settle taxes by Monday
FIRST division football clubs must settle all their outstanding arrears by Monday at the latest or else be found in breach of UEFA regulations and...
Building sector ‘dictatorship’ says union
By Peter Stevenson UNIONS have accused building contractors of not paying employees on time, of cutting wages, and in some cases having not paid workers...
‘Pension cuts will only affect the well-off’
By Constantinos Psillides Finance minister Harris Georgiades said yesterday that cuts to what is known as the ‘social pension’ would only affect those elderly people...
Deadline for social insurance payments
ONLINE payments of social insurance contributions can be made up to midnight of December 31, Social Insurance head Theophanis Tryphonos said. He added that those...
Foreign workers arrested
POLICE in Paphos arrested eight foreign nationals on Tuesday after searching a number of shops and restaurants as part of a campaign to stop illegal employment. During...
Social Insurance Fund viable until 2060
Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Friday that the reserves and expected revenue of the Social Insurance Fund are enough to last until 2060, requiring no further...