
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou assured on Wednesday he would continue efforts to bridge the differences between the trade unions and employers in the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) dispute, saying an agreement was “feasible”.
Panayiotou pointed out that the general strike called by the trade unions for September 11 was outside the industrial relations code – agreed on by the social partners in 1977 – since the labour ministry had not declared