Statutory notice period
The minimum notice an employer must give. Contracts and collective agreements can lengthen it and only rarely shorten it, and the tenure bands are where cross-border assumptions usually go wrong.
Employer's written notice under the Termination of Employment Law, owed once continuous service has passed twenty-six weeks. The employee's own resignation follows a shorter statutory scale.
| Service | Employer notice | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| 26 to 51 weeks of service | 1 week | written notice; pay in lieu is allowed |
| 52 to 103 weeks | 2 weeks | same rule |
| 104 to 155 weeks | 4 weeks | same rule |
| 156 to 207 weeks | 5 weeks | same rule |
| 208 to 259 weeks | 6 weeks | same rule |
| 260 to 311 weeks | 7 weeks | same rule |
| 312 weeks or more | 8 weeks | same rule |
During notice for redundancy the employee may take paid time to look for work, up to eight hours a week and forty in total. Redundancy pay itself comes from a fund financed by employers.
Source: Terms of employment defined by law, notice table, Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance; Q&A on Cyprus employment law, notice ladder, Antonis Paschalides & Co.; Cyprus: notice period to employees, Eurofound legislation database. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Minimum paid annual leave
The statutory floor for paid holiday. The counting basis matters as much as the number, since some laws count a six-day week and others count working days or calendar weeks.
20 working days per year.
Twenty-four working days where the week runs six days, earned against forty-eight weeks of work in the leave year under the annual holidays with pay law.
Source: Cyprus employment guide, annual leave, Acvian; Q&A on Cyprus employment law, Antonis Paschalides & Co.. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Probation limit
The longest trial period the law allows an employer to agree, together with the notice that applies while it runs.
6 months at most, with notice of none required while the trial covers the first twenty-six weeks during it.
Six months is the default under the 2023 transparent-conditions law. The older termination law separately leaves the first twenty-six weeks outside dismissal protection, and a written term agreed at hiring can stretch that unprotected window to a hundred and four weeks.
The trial rules give way for pregnant employees.
Source: Cyprus probation rules, Acvian; Cyprus, 2023 transparent conditions law, Eurofound legislation database. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Employer social contributions
What the employer pays on top of gross salary into statutory schemes. Some countries charge a percentage of pay, others charge flat amounts, and a single headline rate hides caps, regional rules and industry-rated items.
Figures apply for 2026.
| Scheme | Rate, per cent of pay | Charged on |
|---|---|---|
| Social insurance fund | 8.8 | pay up to 5,742 EUR per month |
| Redundancy fund | 1.2 | pay up to 5,742 EUR per month |
| Training and development fund | 0.5 | pay up to 5,742 EUR per month |
| Social cohesion fundCharged on actual earnings without the ceiling. | 2 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| General healthcare system, GESY | 2.9 | pay up to 180,000 EUR per year |
| Sum of the shares aboveThe insurable-earnings ceiling of 5,742 euro a month, 68,904 a year, was set by the department's December 2025 announcement; the health charge runs to its own far higher ceiling. | 15.4 |
The employee carries 8.8 per cent social insurance and 2.65 per cent for the health system, withheld from gross.
Source: Maximum insurable earnings for 2026 and rate table, KPMG Cyprus, quoting the Social Insurance Services announcement; Cyprus redundancy fund, Eurofound legislation database; Cyprus employer contributions incl. GESY cap, Acvian. Checked on 2026-07-27.