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PARLIAMENT approved bills providing for paternity leave, raising income criteria for child allowances, and maternity leave for both women in cases of surrogate childbirths. The House plenum also approved the payment of widow pension in cases where the...
The MoveS network (Free Movement and Social Security Coordination) will organise a seminar in Nicosia (Cyprus) on 28 September 2018. The first part of the seminar will be dedicated to legislative and case law updates relating to free movement of workers...
A new scheme to provide affordable housing to low income people in Cyprus will soon change the structure of the housing market, which is currently targeting middle and high income people, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides told the state radio on...
BLOG: ILOSTAT data shows how employment prospects for disabled people vary around the world. Even though the findings are limited since many nations don’t collect or publish these statistics, they highlight wide disparities in the likelihood of finding...
The government on Sunday unveiled a €700m support package for companies and workers to deal with the impact of the spread of coronavirus. Four weeks ‘special’ leave for parents who work in the private sector with children aged up to 15.
This study explores the mobility–welfare nexus from a comparative perspective by bridging two bodies of literature – social policy studies and migration research – in an innovative way. This book is part of a series of three volumes involving a large...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, IMISCOE
This study explores the mobility–welfare nexus from a comparative perspective by bridging two bodies of literature – social policy studies and migration research – in an innovative way. This book is part of a series of three volumes involving a large...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, IMISCOE
About one in three or 33.4 per cent of working Cypriots received support from special schemes to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the second highest rate in the EU 27 and nearly double the EU 27 average of 1.5 per cent, Labour Minister Zeta...
Between Monday 3 February 2020 and Sunday 18 April 2021, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people was 6,740 for the EU-27 as a whole; in Cyprus, it was 7,118. The total number of deaths per 100,000 people was 151 for the EU27,...