Public sector workers demand work from home rights
The independent union of public employees (Asdyk) has called on the finance ministry to write into law protections for public sector workers who wish to work from home.
The union ...
Finance minister, unions insist on need for more civil servants (updated)
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and trade unions reiterated on Wednesday the need to hire more civil servants after the House finance committee this week refused to approve over 1,800 positions.
The ...
Hiring almost 2,000 civil servants would be ‘a step backwards’
Hiring almost 2,000 employees to the civil service would be a step backward, opposition Disy MP and former finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday, a day after the House finance ...
End of civil servant pay freeze to cost the state millions
A freeze on civil service pay rises and reductions established in 2012 for salaries over €2,001 a month has been abolished, meaning billions more will be spent from the state budget to ...
Civil servants given more flexible working hours
Civil servants can start and finish work half an hour earlier after the plenum approved amendments to their working hours on Thursday to alleviate traffic issues.
MPs approved the regulations ...
Plenum to vote on changing working hours for civil servants
Parliament is set to vote on a bill on Thursday that will amend civil servant working hours in an effort to alleviate traffic issues.
The current hours of the public ...
Hourly paid civil servants threaten strike measures
Public servants working on an hourly basis will strike if the collective agreement on their salaries is not renewed at the end of April, labour unions Peo and Sek warned ...
All financial crisis pay cuts for civil servants to be reinstated as of January 1
As of January 1, all salary cuts instituted in the public sector back in 2012 will be completely phased out, and this – in conjunction with an anticipated rise in the cost of ...
UK civil servants plan winter strike unless demands are met
Thousands of British civil servants are planning for one month of “sustained industrial action” through the winter in an ongoing pay dispute, the head of the Public and Commercial Services ...
Price increases: The government cannot set profit margins
Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise
What is the margin of profit? On the face of it, ...
Audit office against allowing civil servants to keep job on hold while serving as MP
The audit office on Friday called on political parties to ditch a proposal that would allow civil servants to be elected as MPs without resigning from their post, saying this ...
Auditor-general questions status change for president’s associates
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday called out President Nicos Anastasiades over the affair where four of the president’s associates – previously contract workers – were effectively granted civil-servant status, with the ...
Thousands of civil servants involved in private businesses
Some 2,000 civil servants are participating in the management of private companies in some way without prior permission from the finance ministry, the House ethics committee heard on Wednesday.
Its chairman, ...
Turkish Cypriot civil servants stage strike
Civil servants in the north went on strike on Thursday over a freeze on the cost-of-living increment for four months.
Hundreds of civil servants marched to ‘parliament’ to protest over ...
Government employment in January up by 0.8%
Total government employment in January rose by 440 persons or 0.8 per cent year on year due to the hiring of temporary employees, data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus (Cystat) ...