No conclusion was reached on Tuesday during a meeting chaired by President Nicos Anastasiades with trade unions over the introduction of a minimal wage.
The issue was referred to future meetings between the labour minister and relevant stakeholders, Cyprus News Agency reported.
At the meeting, trade unions Sek, Peo and Deok criticised employers’ organisations Keve and Oev for differentiating from the framework as had been established during discussions with the late Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou.
Representatives of the employers’ organisations countered that they themselves had never stated the issue had been closed and that today’s meeting had revealed the differences of opinion between the two sides.
Opinions also clashed on whether the determination of a national median wage will be based on the calculations of the statistical service, which are lower than the EU-SILC cross-sectional and longitudinal sample survey, Keve president Christodoulos Agastiniotis said.
Discussions for the introduction of a minimum wage were postponed due to the passing of the labour minister, who suffered a cerebral aneurysm in May, the month during which final decision were expected.
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