#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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 (...

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 ...

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 ...

Unions on Friday accused state health services organisation (Okypy) of delaying talks to reach collective agreements with staff working at state hospitals. In a statement from all the labour unions: ...

An electricity authority (EAC) trade union which initially said it would abstain from the scheduled strike on Thursday, said it would demonstrate outside parliament. The independent union of technical and ...