Two kinds of war?
Cyprus was bracing for a non-traditional type of war this week. A confrontation between employers and workers over the demand by Unions for restoring the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (CoLA or ATA ...
Panayiotou to hold more CoLA meetings this week
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou will hold separate meetings with trade unions and with employers’ associations in the coming days amid an ongoing rift over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) which led ...
Christodoulides: IMF report reaffirms govt’s ‘responsible fiscal policy’
Recommendations included in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report on Cyprus reaffirm the government’s “responsible fiscal policy”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday.
Many of the IMF recommendations ...
Our View: It is not union bosses elected to run the country
No minister follows the government mantra of pleasing the maximum number of people as loyally as Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou. Ever since his appointment, he has been on a mission ...
State will spend €60m on Cost of Living Allowance
The state will spend €60 million more this fiscal year as a result of the increase since June in the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA), MPs heard on Tuesday.
The funds ...
Fear of ‘chaos’ over CoLA fight
Unions and employers brace for fight over wage rises
Unions and employers’ organisations are on a collision course over the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which they are set to ...
Workers in north strike over cost of living pay freeze
Workers at the Tymbou (Ercan) airport and ‘civil aviation’ in north went on a work stoppage on Monday in protest over the freeze for four months the cost-of-living increment paid ...