EGYPT— The rejection by parliament of the Civil Service Law (Law 18/2015) and the endorsement of amendments on some provisions of the Social Security Law for the year 1975, stipulates that the state will be implementing the law number 47 for the year 1978, said Hani Samir, founder of the general union for workers in sales tax sector.
On 20 January, the parliament voted down the law, only to be asked by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to reconsider its position as the law was a step in the direction of reforming the bureaucracy-laden administrative sector.
The law, which was ratified in March 2015 by El-Sisi in the absence of a parliament, aims to reform Egypts administrative sector in order to lessen the wage burden on state finances and encourage private investment. MPs, however, insisted that the law would create do an injustice t to the estimated 6.4 million state employees and should be amended before it is approved.
According to Samir, this move means that the state will implement the scale of salaries as stipulated on the 1978 law, adding to it a social raise of 10 per cent of the basic salary, which is exempted from tax.
He noted that the law voted down to was unjust and had a negative impact on employees, which requires compensating them for the harm caused.
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