{"id":7596,"date":"2024-04-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:00:31","slug":"peo-calls-for-wage-increases-amidst-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=7596","title":{"rendered":"PEO calls for wage increases amidst economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking earlier today at the 10th Pan-Cypriot Conference of SIDIKEK PEO, the General Secretary of PEO, Sotiroulla Charalambous, emphasized that the organisation\u2019s priority this year is to seek increases in Collective Employment Agreements that improve real wages, paying particular attention to starting salaries.<br \/>\nAs she pointed out, \u201cin recent years, the Cypriot economy has been growing at high rates,\u201d but \u201cthis growth has not led to a reduction in social inequalities. Income distribution remains uneven for workers, while inflation and high interest rates make the situation even more challenging.\u201d<br \/>\nReferring extensively to prolonged inflation, Sotiroulla Charalambous stated that \u201cinflation is decreasing, but high prices and high interest rates persist, depriving households of significant resources.\u201d<br \/>\nShe criticised the government, saying that in exercising social policy, \u201cit follows the Anastasiades-DISY policy: one-off grants to certain groups. Social policy is transformed into micro-politics of state philanthropy.\u201d<br \/>\nShe added: \u201cTheir position simply confirms a reality: that neither this government, nor the previous one, has any inclination to tax windfall profits and proceed with measures for fair income redistribution.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFaced with ongoing inflation and the new green taxes that the government has already announced will be imposed,\u201d the General Secretary of PEO said, \u201cthere is a need for deeper and broader social policy measures.\u201d She proposed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Revision of income criteria and amounts for child and single-parent allowances, and student grants.<\/li>\n<li>Extension of parental leave and allowance up to the 15th year of age.<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive programme for the creation of care infrastructure by the state and local authorities.<\/li>\n<li>Extension of all-day schools to primary and secondary education.<\/li>\n<li>Multiplication of housing programmes and rental subsidies based on socio-economic criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Increase of the Minimum Guaranteed Income.<\/li>\n<li>Resolution of the issue of the 12% penalty for those retiring at 63 and improvement of the return rate of the Social Security Fund, ensuring decent pensions for all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>income inequality. real wages, social inequalities, income distribution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of PEO emphasized that the organization&#8217;s priority is to seek increases in Collective Employment Agreements to improve real wages, particularly focusing on starting salaries. 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She proposed revisions to income criteria for allowances, extension of parental leave, creation of care infrastructure, expansion of all-day schools, multiplication of housing programs, increase in Minimum Guaranteed Income, and resolution of pension issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[862,4586,2542,3665,672,645,26,405,27,1312,415,3767,2294,5816,1823,67,899,1401,2796,2512,148,4941,722,5813,4408,4833,301,1033,5814,1538,3771,133,827,5815,1832,1065,1183,114,570,4217,4870],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-age","tag-anastasiades","tag-conference","tag-cypriot-economy","tag-disy","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-expansion","tag-government","tag-growth","tag-income","tag-income-distribution","tag-increase","tag-inflation","tag-interest","tag-interest-rates","tag-issues","tag-labour-relations","tag-local","tag-organisation","tag-pensions","tag-peo","tag-philanthropy","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-prices","tag-real-wages","tag-resolution","tag-salaries","tag-schools","tag-security","tag-social-inequalities","tag-subsidies","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-top-news","tag-trade-unions","tag-wage-increases","tag-wages"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PEO calls for wage increases amidst economic growth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The General Secretary of PEO emphasized that the organization&#039;s priority is to seek increases in Collective Employment Agreements to improve real wages, particularly focusing on starting salaries. 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