Egypt’s 1st hourly minimum wage: An ‘announcement to global markets that our labor is cheap’
Sources express fear that the decision will formalize and entrench an already precarious situation
Sources express fear that the decision will formalize and entrench an already precarious situation
A decade after initiating the process to draft a new labor law, the government announced on November 6 that the bill had finally been completed after incorporating several amendments. The…
The new bill has languished for over 5 years in Egypt's Parliament
The deterioration of private school teachers’ working conditions did not start with the pandemic.
Four construction workers, including three minors, were killed and another one was injured when a roof collapsed on them during the construction…
The new contracts offered to them would reclassify them as daily wage laborers, stripping them of
On Wednesday morning, workers’ representatives met with company chair
The bank issued a directive saying an investigation is not necessary to fire employees
ILO blacklists Egypt for failure to protect independent labor unions
Hundreds of Central Agency for Organization and Management employees protested in front of their workplace in Cairo on Monday demanding the repeal…
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