- Phase
- Collective Dismissals Law of 2001 (Law 28 (I)/2001); Termination of Employment Law of 1967 (Law 24/1967)
- Native name
- Ν. 28(I)/2001 - Ο περί Ομαδικών Απολύσεων Νόμος του 2001; Ν. 24/1967 - Ο περί Τερματισμού Απασχολήσεως Νόμος του 1967
- Type
- Reemployment obligation after restructuring
- Added to database
- 08 May 2015
Article
Article 4 of the Collective Dismissals Law of 2001 Law 28 (I)/2001; Article 22 of the Termination of Employment Law, 1967 (Law 24/1967) as amended
Description
According to Article 4 the Collective Dismissals Law of 2001, employers intending to proceed with collective dismissals (within 30 days, dismissals of at least 10 workers in companies with 21-99 employees, 10% in firms with 100-299 employees or at least 30 workers in firms with 300 or more staff) are obliged to timely enter into consultations with the employees' representatives aiming at designing social measures with the target of reaching an agreement. The consultations should at least cover the following issues:
- Possible ways and means for avoiding collective dismissals or the reduction of number of employees affected, and
- ways and means for lessening the impact of collective dismissals, by designing social measures, which should, among others, have the target of reemployment or retraining of dismissed employees.
The Termination of Employment Law of 1967 is more specific as far as reemployment is concerned. According to Article 22, a redundant employee has the right to reemployment if the employer who proceeded with redundancies is planning to increase employment again within 8 months since the redundancies took place. If the employer is looking for the same type of employees with the same skills as those who were made redundant, he/she is obliged to give preference to redundant employees.
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Cyprus: Reemployment obligation after restructuring, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin,
https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/reemployment-obligation-after-restructuring/cyprus