#work stoppage

A work stoppage announced last week by trade unions of the Paphos district administration (Eoa), is an unnecessary and unconstructive move, its president Charalambos Pittokopitis said on Wednesday. The work ...

The heatwave hitting Cyprus is expected to peak this Thursday with temperatures expected to hit 44C amid yet another orange level weather warning. On Wednesday, temperatures caused a halt in ...

Nurses will hold a work stoppage outside public hospitals on Thursday to protest understaffing, union representatives announced on Tuesday. “For a year now, even after signing the agreement stating a ...

Workers at the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) on Wednesday said they would ramp up industrial action this month, calling a 24-hour strike for January 16. The announcement was made jointly by ...

The association of physiotherapists went on a four-hour work stoppage on Thursday, from 9am until 1pm, over disputes with state health insurance organisation (HIO). In its statement, the association said ...

Health professionals in the north held a work stoppage on Monday to protest the widely condemned knife attack against a doctor by a patient in northern Famagusta. Dozens of doctors ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari called the ongoing understaffing issues at the A&E department of the Paphos general hospital “unacceptable” following a three-hour work stoppage carried out by doctors ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Monday said he would be holding a series of meetings in an attempt to find a compromise that would satisfy state doctors, who announced a ...

Government doctors in accident and emergency departments of the island’s hospitals held a three-hour work stoppage on Tuesday. “The main reason [for our stoppage] is the understaffing of doctors, ...

A meeting between representatives of the health insurance organisation (HIO), the Cyrpus medical association and the state health services (Okypy) is set to take place on Thursday at 9.30am after ...

Limassol driving instructors threatened to strike if the transport ministry fails to provide solutions to several long-standing issues in the sector by next Friday. The problems were listed in a ...

Primary and nursery schoolteachers will stage a one-hour work stoppage on Monday to protest the way the pandemic is being handled at schools, teachers’ union Poed said on Thursday. As ...

The forestry department postponed a three-hour work stoppage on Thursday morning to protest understaffing, following a meeting with the agriculture ministry. The strike, which was scheduled to take place between 9.30...

Hourly-paid workers in state hospitals will hold a two-hour strike on March 10 to protest the state health service’s (Okypy) failure to properly address the situation created by the coronavirus ...