national minimum wage

Court upholds ruling on new minimum wage; workers skeptical about implementation
Egypt

Court upholds ruling on new minimum wage; workers skeptical about implementation

Egypt’s Administrative Court issued a verdict on Tuesday upholding a previous ruling in March that obliged the government to set…
NGO challenges govt failure to raise national minimum wage
Egypt

NGO challenges govt failure to raise national minimum wage

A Cairo-based human rights NGO has challenged the government’s failure to implement a previous court verdict calling for the establishment…
Public employees’ bonuses raised 10%
Egypt

Public employees’ bonuses raised 10%

Parliament on Tuesday approved a ten-percent increase in annual bonuses for government employees, despite opposition calls for a 20-percent raise…
Egypt’s Mubarak rejects calls for constitutional reform
Egypt

Egypt’s Mubarak rejects calls for constitutional reform

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday rejected opposition calls to amend the constitution, warning against possible “chaos,” in his first…
Labor leader Nagi Rashad: A Profile
Egypt

Labor leader Nagi Rashad: A Profile

For the past few years Egypt's labor movement has been sending shock waves through the country, as the number of…
Official stats put per capita monthly income at LE98
Business

Official stats put per capita monthly income at LE98

A recent study conducted by the Investment Authority revealed that the monthly per capita income in Egypt stood at LE98,…
Hundreds of Egyptian workers demonstrate for minimum wage
Egypt

Hundreds of Egyptian workers demonstrate for minimum wage

Hundreds of Egyptian workers demonstrated Saturday in downtown Cairo, calling for raising the national minimum wage.Protesters assembled in front of…
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