The Law on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions
(25(I)/2023), (hereinafter referred to as "the
Law"), came into force on 13/04/2023, incorporating
the European Union (EU) Directive 2019/1152 into the Cypriot
legislation. The Law as it will be explained below provides a
number of new employees' rights.
The new employees' rights provided by the Law are the
following:
1.The maximum duration of the probationary period is set
at 6 months.
2.The employee has a right to parallel
employment, i.e. to be employed by other employers outside
the working hours agreed with his main employer, while the latter
is prohibited from discriminating against such employee because of
the exercise of this right. An employer who wishes to exclude from
his employees the right of parallel employment should, at the time
of recruitment, make a provision in the written employment
agreement or inform the employee of this particular prohibition in
writing, specifying also the
