Protesters marched from the Pasydy trade union offices to the Presidential Palace where a petition was handed over demanding that the 12% penalty imposed on people who retire at age 63 be scrapped. The retirement age in Cyprus is currently 65 years. Organisers said that the challenges currently faced because of the pandemic ‘are factors that restore with even greater intensity society’s demand for the abolition of the unfair 12% penalty in the social insurance pensions’.
Read on: in English...
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.