Cypriot labor regulations only specify minimum wage requirements for specific industries & worker classifications such as:

• Manual, semi-skilled assistance: €870 ($1061.15) per month, rising to €924 ($1,127.01) after six months’ experience is acquired
• Unskilled asylum seekers working in the agriculture industry: €425 ($518.38) per month, with food and board provided
• Skilled workers in the agriculture industry: €767 ($935.52) per month

Cypriot minimum wage laws appear to cater to Cyprus’s agriculture economy and in the absence of any specified wage, employers and employees are free to negotiate independently.

For customers of Remote, all employee payments will be made in equal monthly installments on or before the last working day of each calendar month, payable in arrears.

We can help you get a new employee started in Cyprus fast. The minimum onboarding time we need is only 5 working days.

Our team ensures your employees are onboarded and paid as quickly as possible while keeping your business compliant with all local employment legislation. The minimum onboarding time begins after the employee submits all required information onto the Remote platform. The onboarding timeline is also dependent upon registration with local authorities.

For all non-nationals of the country of employment, the Right to Work assessment (if applicable) will add three extra days to the total time to onboard. There may be extra time required if we need to follow-up on the right to work assessment.

Please note, payroll cut-off dates can impact the actual first day of employment. Remote has a payroll cut-off date of the 10th of the month unless otherwise specified.

Employees are entitled to four weeks of paid leave after completing 48 weeks on the job every year. Within that bracket, employees who work 5 days a week are entitled to 20 days of leave annually, while employees who work 6 days weekly are entitled to 24 days of paid annual leave.

In addition to the paid leave entitlement, both part-time and full-time Cypriot workers are entitled to take the 13 public holidays off as, with full wages paid.

Starting the fourth day of an illness, sick employees can draw benefits from the Social Insurance Fund for up to 156 days.

Female employees can take up to 18 weeks of paid leave for a single birth, 22 weeks for twins, and 26 weeks for triplets or more, with a maternity benefit paid by the government at a rate of 72% of the employee’s normal wages.

Natural fathers can take 2 weeks of paid leave, anytime within their partner’s maternity leave window.

Each parent can take up to seven weeks of leave annually to care for their children aged below eight. After exercising the first two weeks, parental leave entitlement can be transferred between partners.