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A recent judgment of the EU\u2019s Court of Justice (CJEU) could pave the way for thousands of civil servants on fixed-term employment to become permanent workers, Isotita union said on Tuesday.<\/p>\nA recent judgment of the EU\u2019s Court of Justice (CJEU) could pave the way for thousands of civil servants on fixed-term employment to become permanent workers, Isotita union said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In a letter, which was also shared with the finance ministry, the union calls on the government to take immediate action<\/strong> and make permanent the positions of employees in the public sector who are on temporary or fixed-term contracts, in light of CJEU\u2019s February 22 judgment.The judgment considers that temporary employees fall under the concept of \u2018fixed-term employee\u2019 and on fixed-term contracts.It ruled that the indefinite extension of an employment contract without the publication of a vacancy notice for the post constitutes an \u201cabuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships,\u201d which member states are obligated to prevent through the introduction of measures.Therefore, the CJEU opposes national regulations that do not contain effective measures to prevent and penalise such abuses, stating in particular that simple compensation in case of unfair dismissal is not a sufficient measure<\/strong>, and neither is awarding posts through competitions, which put permanent workers at an unfair advantage.\u201cIn the absence of adequate measures in national law to prevent and, where necessary, penalise\u2026 abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term contracts, including non-permanent contracts of indefinite duration which have been extended successively, the conversion of those temporary contacts into permanent contracts is capable of constituting such a measure,\u201d it said.Referring to the above, Isotita recalled the president\u2019s pre-election commitments to equalise employment conditions for fixed-term and indefinite-term employees with those of permanent employees, and seek a definitive solution to the status of indefinite-term employees.Concluding, the union called on the government \u201cto immediately comply with the obligations of the Republic of Cyprus deriving from EU law and to proceed with the necessary permanent employment of all affected workers\u201d.Follow the A recent judgment by the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) could allow thousands of civil servants on fixed-term employment to become permanent workers, according to the Isotita union. The union has urged the government to make these employees permanent, following the CJEU’s judgment on February 22, which ruled that the indefinite extension of fixed-term employment contracts without a vacancy notice is an abuse that member states must prevent. The CJEU stated that simple compensation for unfair dismissal or awarding posts through competitions are not sufficient measures to prevent such abuses. The judgment implies that converting temporary contracts into permanent ones could be a necessary measure to address the issue. Isotita has reminded the government of the president’s pre-election promises regarding employment conditions and has called for immediate action to comply with EU law by making all affected workers permanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[766,281,932,3,27,379,1575,569,1576,250,415,728,582,1577,583],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-civil-servants","tag-civil-service","tag-court","tag-cyprus","tag-employment","tag-eu","tag-eu-court-of-justice","tag-finance","tag-fixed-term-employment","tag-google","tag-government","tag-isotita","tag-justice","tag-permanent-workers","tag-public-sector"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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