Egypt: Metro workers demand Saturday holiday

Egypt- The 48-hour subway sit-in continued to demand allownces for working on Saturdays, like other companies, as they work full-time on official state holidays. One of the employees said that Saturdays and official days off in the state and we need an allowance for working on this day. “When we found complete disregard by the Metro Administration, and when Ali Fadali, head of the MRT, refused to meet us, we decided to organize a protest from 9 am on Tuesday to 9 am on Thursday,’ he added. An official source in the metro said that the Metro loses large sums, and in the event of the response, the Metro Authority will be required to apply the order to all employees, which is approximately 2 billion pounds, a number that cannot be paid by the Metro Company, Pointing out that it is possible to study the payment of bonuses to workers.