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Civil servants to keep 13th salary
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias passed on a pledge to public servants yesterday that the government would not touch their 13th salaries following outrage by unions on Wednesday when Finance Minister Vassos Shiraly declined to either confirm or deny that such a move was in the works.The news was welcomed yesterday by public servants union PASYDY, which has remained adamant throughout the implementation of austerity measures that the solution does not lie in cutbacks to the public payroll despite suggestions to the contrary by the EU and the IMF. While civil servants are now guaranteed to keep their 13th salaries, many workers in the private sector have had to do without theirs as their employers cannot afford to pay up. ... 20 comments
Overtime deal for civil servants
BY MAJORITY vote, the House yesterday approved a set of regulations involving the calculation of civil servants’ overtime rates.Under regulations incorporated in the 2012 budget and pushed through by opposition politicians, public-sector employees have since January been paid overtime rates based on the lowest pay grade in a given service irrespective of their pay scale – a significant departure from past practice.The new regulations find the middle ground, setting the overtime rate at the average of a given pay scale.Lawmakers had agreed to take another look at the issue, after a number of civil servants – particularly high-earners - began refusing to put in overtime, creating problems to various government departments... 4 comments
Former civil servants cheated out of their pensions
THE European Commission has requested Cyprus to clarify two issues linked to former Cypriot civil servants working in another EU member state or for the EU institutions. The current law in Cyprus states that those with at least five years of service and over the age of 45 receive a lump sum payment on departure as well as a consolidated pension when they reach 55. However, civil servants who resign before the age of 45 only receive a lump sum but no future pension entitlement. This age criteria do not apply to certain internal mobility situations such as for civil servants who are recruited by a Cypriot municipal authority, or in certain cases of general interest... 3 comments
Public service shrinks by…two people
THE SIZE of the broader public sector shrank last year by a grand total of…two people.The Department of Statistics yesterday released data on the total number of people employed in the central government and the broader civil service in 2011.The number of civil servants employed at the end of the quarters of 2011 were: 70,782; 72,322; 70,898; and 72,208.At the end of Q4 of the previous year (2010), the number of civil servants stood at 72,210 – two more than at the end of Q4 2011.The government had pledged to reduce the size of the public sector by some 1,000.The bulk of civil servants work for the central government, where 58,673 persons were employed at the end of Q4 2011... 8 comments
