Our View: Can we believe anything the government says?
Talking about the state budget for 2024 at the House finance committee on Monday, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said he was worried about the increase of the public payroll, which stands ...
Electricity unions raise concerns over feasibility of interconnector project
Four trade unions representing workers in the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Thursday pilloried plans for the EuroAsia interconnector, warning that Cypriot taxpayers may end up getting saddled with ...
Our View: Government playing risky games to satisfy unions
There is little doubt that President Nikos Christodoulides’ government is beholden to the unions. The public support offered him by the Sek union federation in the elections was bound to ...
CoLA compromise deal signed, labour peace restored (Update 2)
President Nikos Christodoulides said he was pleased with the cost of living allowance (CoLA) agreement signed on Friday afternoon which is putting an end to a long-standing labour dispute.
The ...
Our View: Oev gave up on economic rationality
The executive council of the Federation of Employers and Industrialists, Oev, on Thursday decided to accept the mediation proposal on CoLA submitted by the labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou, citing the ...
A step closer to resolving CoLA dispute, says labour minister (Update 2)
Unions and employers are one step closer to agreeing over the cost of living allowance dispute, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday.
In statements to the press after holding ...
Trade unions to decide joint CoLA stance on Thursday
Trade unions will hold a joint meeting on Thursday to decide their collective stance on the government’s compromise proposal regarding the cost of living allowance, not ruling out possible ...
Minister appeals for industrial peace in Labour Day message
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou sent out a message to the social partners on Saturday in his Labour Day message that unions and employers must both strive for industrial peace that ...
Blackouts continue in north as tensions grow with unions
Widespread blackouts in the north are continuing, while a tense situation arose between employees of the Turkish Cypriot El-Sen union, and the private Turkish company Aksa, which the ‘government’ instructed ...
Government will submit new CoLA proposal ‘once conditions allow’
The government will submit a proposal over the cost of living allowance (CoLA) once the conditions for it allow, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday.
After a period of ...
Paphos municipality workers to go on strike
Paphos municipality employees on Thursday announced they will be staging a 24-hour work stoppage on April 4 to protest the “unilateral decisions” of the Paphos municipality and municipal council.
In a ...
Our View: Shortage of nurses not the problem; the system is
For some time now, we have been hearing about the nursing shortages in public hospitals. Nursing union bosses go on about it and keep pressuring Okypy to hire more nurses ...
Divisions over employment changes for third-country nationals
Trade unions have condemned the new regulations concerning the employment of third country nationals, while employers have said they do not go far enough.
Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos on Wednesday ...
Companies can now employ up to 50 per cent foreign workers
The percentage of foreigners a company is allowed to employ and include into collective agreements has been raised from 30 to 50 per cent, Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos announced on Wednesday.
Speaking ...
Okypy proposal akin to ‘reheated food’ unions blast, amid threats of ‘dynamic measures’
Unions on Tuesday decried the latest proposal from the state health services (Okypy) on collective agreements, describing it as akin to “reheated food.”
Expressing disappointment over it, unions said “the ...
Protests to be held in all districts as part of CoLA strike
The three-hour strike over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) taking place next Thursday will be held between noon and 3pm, the participating unions said on Friday.
The nationwide strike seeks the ...
Three quarters of all workers to take part in CoLA strike – unions
About three out of four workers are estimated to participate in a nationwide strike next week to demand the full restoration of cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), Peo trade union secretary said ...
EAC unions meeting with ministers this Friday
A meeting between the energy and finance ministers, and unions representing workers at the Electricity Authority (EAC) has been rescheduled for this coming Friday.
The meeting had been set for ...
CoLA meeting ends in deadlock amid threat of widespread strikes
Thursday’s meeting between trade unions and employers’ organisations ended in deadlock over reinstating the cost of living allowance (CoLA), with the labour minister – acting as mediator – scrambling to find ...
Teachers’ unions meet government on recruitment issues
Teaching unions Oelmek, Poed and Oltek met with government officials on Thursday to discuss a proposal that would hypothetically improve the recruitment of permanent teaching posts and cut down on ...
Unions or mobsters?
You may have heard of Jimmy Hoffa. If you are wondering who that is, he was the chairman of the truckers union in the US during the time John F. ...
Unions give government two-week ultimatum to restore CoLA (Updated)
By Elias Hazou and Sarah Ktisti
Trade unions on Thursday gave the government and employers a two-week ultimatum to agree to the full reinstatement of the cost of living allowance (...
Our View: There should be no dialogue with EAC unions
From today, households and businesses in the Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta districts were to be subjected to power cuts of 30 minutes to an hour in the evening because Electricity Authority ...
Our View: Government must not give into union blackmail
The pampered workers of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), having failed to impose their diktats on the government with work stoppages and day strikes have announced they would be ...