In April 2023, the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus recently enacted the abovementioned Law 25(I)/2023 (hereinafter, "the Law") implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union and repealing the Notification of the Employee by the Employer of the Terms governing the Contract or Relationship of Employment Law of 2000 (L. 100(I)/2000).
The purpose of the Law, the provisions of which are mostly identical with those of the Directive, is to improve working conditions by mandating additional information that needs to be communicated to employees for reasons of transparency and predictability, while ensuring labour market adaptability. Furthermore, the Law lays down minimum rights that apply to every worker in the Republic of Cyprus, except to workers who have an employment relationship in which their predetermined and actual working time is equal to or less than an average of three hours per week in a reference period of four consecutive weeks. We note that the provisions relating to probation, parallel employment, minimum predictability of employment, zero-hours contracts, transfers to alternative forms of employment within the same organisation, mandatory qualifications and collective agreements apply only to the private sector.
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