Owners of entertainment centres in the area of Polis Chrysochous are ready to close their businesses and take to the streets, stated Angelos Onisiforou, the president of the Association of Owned Recreation Centers of Paphos, during the cutting of the association’s New Year’s vasilopita.
According to him, business owners do not have staff to operate their businesses; the applications they have made for securing employees from third countries have been pending for 3 to 4 months.
Asylum seekers working in their centres do not know if they are allowed to work anymore.
The business owners in the district are also requesting an increase in the 50% limit for employing people from third countries, as neither Cypriots nor EU citizens are interested in working in entertainment centres today.
Polis Chrysochous, he emphasized, is a special remote area that needs to be treated differently; otherwise, many businesses will be forced to close.
Mr. Onisiforou contacted the Ministry of Labour by phone to convey the problems.
Efforts are being made to arrange a meeting with the Minister of Labour, in which a delegation from the owners of entertainment centres in the Polis Chrysochous area will participate.
