Right now lays the groundwork for the way forward for the port and marina of Larnaca, for the reason that Authorities and metropolis officers will meet for the primary time after the collapse of the settlement with Kition, with a purpose to focus on the way forward for the venture.
The assembly of the Minister of Transport with the Metropolis Improvement Committee and the plenary session of the Larnaca Municipal Council at 4 pm can have as its primary topic the dialogue of the 2 proposals on the desk. As our newspaper has written in earlier studies, one proposal issues the continuation of the implementation of the 2005 resolution for a unified redevelopment of the port and the marina, and the opposite the separation of the venture.
“I imagine that we should examine all the problems and they’re all on the desk”, the Minister of Transport advised “F”, repeating that the Authorities's objective is to implement the venture quickly. He additionally added that the President of the Republic persistently requested on Tuesday, as he stated, in the course of the Council of Ministers, to be given a selected timetable for the implementation of the venture. “I requested him to see the local people first after which inform him. It's a matter of some days”, famous Mr. Vafeadis.
Requested to state whether or not the Larnaca Authorities may also take part within the working group requested by the President, as is their want, he replied that it will likely be made up of officers who will put the venture on observe for implementation. “Nevertheless, we would like the cooperation of the establishments of Larnaca. I imagine {that a} committee could be created, other than the working group, by which the businesses may take part and we may have steady session with them”.
Right now's extraordinary session of the Parliament's Transport Committee on the matter can be characterised as vital, to which the Minister of Transport, the Auditor Normal, the Larnaca businesses and in addition representatives of Kition Ocean Holdings had been invited, amongst others, who this time are anticipated to attend. The curiosity additionally arises from the truth that the MPs now have entry to the contract with the corporate, which has a confidentiality clause, because it was despatched to the Parliament by the Ministry of Transport following a request.
This specific contract is already underneath the microscope of the Audit Service, which is predicted to finish its audit after the summer season. “Now we have acquired the paperwork we requested and can conduct an audit. You notice that that is now an post-mortem. We are going to see if there was enough monitoring, what the state did and what it may do. The audit is a matter of precedence, however we won’t rush, we are going to look forward to the noise that’s occurring lately to settle down”, the press consultant of the Audit Service, Marios Petridis, advised us.
Kition doesn’t ship a dismissal letter to workers
A difficulty arose, in the meantime, from the truth that the earlier contractor firm, as a substitute of a letter of termination of employment, despatched the employees a letter of switch to the state. “To ensure that their switch to happen formally, Kition should give termination of employment. The Kition letter is a letter of conveyance, which with a purpose to be despatched, a enterprise settlement should have occurred, i.e. somebody to promote and somebody to purchase. So long as the staff do not need the right letter, KItion has the employer's accountability in relation to wages and rights deriving from labor legal guidelines”, stated the CEO of SEGDAMELIN-PEO, Natia Kyritsis, to “F”.
The corporate should proceed to pay the employees since they didn’t end their work, famous Charalambos Augusti, CEO of OMEPEGIE-SEK. “It’s a matter dealt with by the Ministry. The staff immediately (yesterday) have accepted the proposal of the Ministry of Labor and we’re positive that they’ll proceed to work in port and marina”.
Nevertheless, the corporate's perspective is totally completely different and claims {that a} letter has been despatched to the staff on Tuesday night time that stems from the related laws and offers for the switch of all workers. “The corporate refers back to the TUPE Act and believes that the state ought to take over all its 89 workers, in order that nobody is left uncovered”, its sources advised “F”.
The matter is dealt with by the Ministry of Labor, which said in an announcement final night time that the Division of Labor Relations has despatched a letter to Kition Ocean Holding, “following the choice of the competent contracting authority, to terminate the contract for the administration and growth of the port and marina of Larnaca , by way of which it calls on it to right away reply to its obligations and to totally adjust to the provisions of the laws, relating to labor points”.
As well as, it states that “public studies about an alleged authorized impediment relating to the assure of the employment of staff within the context of the settlement reached between the Authorities and the representatives of the employees” are usually not true. The procedures for the implementation of the settlement, he provides, “are already underway and the labor rights of the staff can be ensured in accordance with the related labor legal guidelines.”
Boat homeowners are asking for a discount in charges
A discount within the mooring charges raised by Kition on the Larnaca marina is being demanded by yacht properties and cruise ships. By an announcement, the Affiliation of Docked Vessels criticizes the Minister of Transport and requests a gathering with him, indicating that they had been the primary to warn about Kition's sloppiness. “We’re those immediately affected, that’s the reason we demand that our positions and opinions be taken severely and that we be a part of the discussions in any new effort by the Authorities to discover a appropriate supervisor of the Larnaca marina” is said within the announcement, to which it’s added that nothing that has been accomplished within the marina “doesn’t justify the will increase that the investor willfully imposed”.
In the identical vein are the long-haulers who’ve seen their work plummet because of the works on the preserved wharf. “Properly accomplished to the Authorities for taking this step, however it ought to have been accomplished a yr in the past as a result of Kition had no intention of doing the venture. Kition did nothing for us. We ask that the charges be paid as earlier than and that the dock, which has been closed for 2 years, be opened instantly”, famous the vice-president of the All-Cypriot Affiliation of Coastal Boat House owners, Andreas Panagiotou.
So far as the charges are involved, the Minister of Transport said that there’s a process that have to be adopted primarily based on the laws. “Till this course of is accomplished, the charges which have been in impact till now will apply. We, nonetheless, will duly look into the matter and comply with the authorized process to reach on the charges which can be accredited by the Cypriot state”, he famous.
