The meeting at the Presidential Palace, chaired by the President of the Republic, aimed at concluding the consultations on the introduction of the minimum wage in Cyprus, has been completed.
President Anastasiades met with all social partners, and concluded that there is a need to find "consensual solutions" so that efforts can be intensive and a consensual solution can be implemented.
Painful and difficult process
At the end of the meeting, the Director General of the Federation of Employers & Industrialists (OEB), Michael Antoniou, made a statement calling it a very useful and productive discussion with the President of the Republic. "The government is committed to introducing the minimum wage. In this it has the full support of the OEB, as well as the other social partners," he noted.
As Mr. Antoniou said in his statements, efforts are needed to find consensual solutions. "The effort is to agree and this process as we all know is not easy, it is painful. It is not easy to find compromise solutions to something that concerns the whole economy," he noted.
He also stressed that this is a huge reform and it comes after 62 years of not having a national minimum wage. "There are elements that are of concern to both sides."
"All this with speed, respecting the government's wishes, we will enter into an intensive effort in the hope that we will implement a consensual solution," he added."
[/P][BR][BR]"We have timetables to keep and we have all the goodwill. We have to stick to the fact that there is the will to find an agreement and from there the positions of each side will be made public when this process is over," he concluded.
Contents of this article including associated images are belongs Cyprus Times
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or Cyprus Times
Source
