Zéta Aimilianídou

Zeta Emilianidou (; 2 September 1954 – 6 June 2022) was a Cypriot lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security of Cyprus from 4 April 2013 until her death on 6 June 2022.

Career Emilianidou was born on 2 September 1954 in Nicosia, then British Cyprus, and received a degree in law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a master's degree in marketing from the Cyprus Institute of Marketing. The following year she was appointed to work in the Customs Department. After Anastasiades was re-elected in the 2018 presidential election, Emilianidou was re-appointed Minister of Labour.

During her term as minister, Emilianidou promoted the guaranteed minimum income, the creation of the vice-ministry of social welfare, an increase in the income of low-income pensioners, a care allowance, subsidized four-day vacations, widow's pension for men under the same conditions as women, paid paternity leave, introduced a special pension for those over 50 years old with thalassemia, the creation of the Women's House for victims of domestic violence, and the recognition of maternity through surrogate mothers, among other moves.

Personal life and death On 15 May 2022, Emilianidou suffered a brain aneurysm and was immediately transferred to Ygeia Medical Center in Athens, Greece, where she underwent surgery. Emilianidou died on 6 June 2022 at the age of 67. Three days of mourning were declared beginning on 6 June. The funeral took place on 10 June at Holy Temple of the Wisdom of God in Strovolos and later her body buried in Nicosia's Constantine and Helen Cemetery.

Emilianidou's husband, also a lawyer, died in 2017, aged 70.

Books Value Added Tax in Cyprus (1992).