The joint meeting of the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, Kyriakos Kousios, with the social partners (employers and trade unions), convened in an attempt to find common ground on the establishment of a national minimum wage, has been completed.
As reported by the Cyprus News Agency, the meeting focused on defining the procedure for discussing the issue.
The joint meeting comes after the social partners held a joint meeting with the President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, on Tuesday.
The trade unions, after the meeting, criticised the employers' organisations in statements or even communiqués for attempting to change the framework for setting the minimum wage and argue that there was a regression at Tuesday's meeting, while the employers' organisations claim that the dialogue was never completed.
Disagreement was recorded over the way the minimum wage is calculated and in particular whether it will be calculated on the basis of data from the Statistical Office or the European EU-SILC survey.
It is noted that the government has given a timetable until the end of August to complete the consultations.
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