An “extraordinary and decisive” meeting between workers’ unions and directors of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) is set to take place on Wednesday.
The meeting comes amid disquiet among Cyta employees regarding proposed changes, which will impact the permanent status of employees and employee pay scales.
Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) before the meeting, trade union leader Elias Demetriou said “today is the last day on which the board can accept or reject” positions put forward by the unions regarding safeguards to their pay and conditions.
“Today, the clarifications or conditions will be completed and the entire discussion which took place during the last 11 months will be closed, either positively or negatively,” he added.
He spoke with optimism about the meeting, saying, “the unions, at the end of the day, see the well-intentioned interest of our organisation – to continue to be profitable, to have flexibility and to reduce labour and operational costs, and certainly to preserve jobs.”
The unions’ positions had been submitted to Cyta’s chairman on Tuesday evening, with Demetriou saying Wednesday’s meeting will “determine if there will be an agreement in principle which, after being discussed in an extraordinary session of the board of directors, should be sent to the finance ministry.”
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