
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Friday said the government was operating under a “people’s mandate” to implement a human-centred employment policy.
The minister was responding to Sek union leader Andreas Matsa who had accused him of altering the underlying philosophy of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA).
Speaking to CyBC, Panayiotou assured the public that the renewal of the 2023 CoLA provisions was imminent, and that a specific timeframe for its implementation