Number of government workers up 1.1 per cent in 2016, Cystat says

15-3-2017 Business Mail BusinessMail Warmer

Number of government workers up 1.1 per cent in...

By Stelios Orphanides

The number of workers in the general government and state-controlled corporations rose 1 per cent in 2016 to 64,549 after a general hire freeze was phased out, the statistical service said.

The increase took place mainly in the fourth quarter in which the total number of workers employed by the government and state-controlled companies rose an annual 3.2 per cent to 66,560, Cystat said in a statement on its website on Wednesday. In the third quarter, the number of workers dropped 0.3 per cent while in the first and second quarters, it rose 0.2 and 0.6 per cent...

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