A protest was held on Saturday outside the Ministry of Defence by parents and relatives of female non-commissioned officers, who served as Volunteer Non-Commissioned Officers of the 5th , 6th , 7th and 8th ranks, regarding the gender discrimination they suffer in the field of work.
At the protest event, the women permanent NCOs adopted a resolution demanding an immediate solution to the issue[/B] of women NCOs, stressing that several of them are on the verge of retirement and in a few years most of them will retire.
They called on the President of the Republic of Cyprus, the Council of Ministers, the Minister of Defence to make immediate full reparation for the negative consequences[/B] suffered by women NCOs as a result of gender discrimination at work.
They requested that they be restored to the permanent position of Sergeant, that is, that they be appointed retroactively to the permanent position of Sergeant, from the date they would have been appointed had it not been for the gender discrimination against them.
They also requested again to restore their careers as they would have been had the discrimination on grounds of sex not intervened, that is to say, to promote them to the positions in the hierarchy which they would normally have been promoted to had the discrimination on grounds of sex not intervened.
Source: CNA
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