The Department of Labour Relations plans to send warning letters shortly to employers who have not submitted their employees’ terms of employment.
More than 46,000 employers have responded so far to the request, which was issued to all employers in Cyprus in April 2026, according to information from the department and the CFO Society of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC). Employers were asked to submit copies of employment terms and evidence that their staff had been informed of them.
Employers can use the ERGANI information system to enter basic employment terms electronically and generate a form to print or send digitally, according to the ICPAC CFO Society. The form can be given or sent to employees as evidence that they have been informed of their terms, and the same process can be used to update the terms of existing staff.
The society said ERGANI provides a central, secure place to record and store the information, reducing the administrative burden on businesses, and lets the authorities check compliance with employment law without asking businesses for documents. The aim is to strengthen transparency and legal certainty in employment relations and to help implement legislation on transparent and predictable terms of employment.
The department has also developed tools to help employers implement the new EU Pay Transparency Directive. They were presented by Yiota Kambouridou, a senior officer at the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, at a ‘Breakfast with the CFOs’ event organised by the ICPAC CFO Society at Inset in Nicosia on 21 October 2026, which focused on the submission process and ERGANI.
The keynote speaker was Antis Apostolou, director of the Department of Labour Relations and head of the ministry’s Inspection Service.
Participants also discussed the challenges the ministry faces in developing ERGANI, which is designed to serve government departments, businesses and employees by simplifying procedures and modernising how employment data is recorded.
