Rights campaign presents Labour Law draft to Ministry of Manpower
Campaign is set to meet with the Minster of Manpower Nahed Al-Ashry within the next week, says campaign member
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Latest in Tag: workers rights
Photojournalist captures life in Upper Egypt’s quarries
More than 20,000 unregistered workers risk life and limb to mine the mountain, often starting work as young as 9 years old
Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights to defend unpaid workers
By Aya Nader The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) on Tuesday referred to court the case of 25 workers who did not receive their salaries for more than a year. The ECESR said in a statement that it would legally defend the workers until the entirety of their financial rights are secured. …
Hundreds of workers ‘illegally’ dismissed in Alexandria
Egyptian factory workers lose their jobs after demanding their rights, says ECESR
Labour movement wins Shbeen case
Administrative Court rules against challenge to previous decision on textile company
Tobacco workers on strike
Eastern Company for Tobacco workers demand better wages, family health insurance and permanent contracts
Drivers at Suez Steel strike after suspension of colleague
Lebanese chairman insults Egyptian workers
Egypt army faces challenge over workers, subsidies
By Tom Pfeiffer/Reuters CAIRO: The Egyptian army, praised for overseeing a mostly peaceful revolution, is running into a storm of wage and subsidy demands overtaking pressure for democracy and piling more burdens on an already teetering economy. That has already happened in Tunisia, where strikes and protests continue more than a month after citizens ousted …
Egyptians air grievances, ignoring army warning
By Maggie Michael / AP CAIRO: Airport employees protested for better pay Wednesday, textile workers went on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents of a Suez Canal city pressed for closing a chemical factory they say is dumping toxic waste into a lake in the latest wave of unrest shaking Egypt. The ruling …