Beheira Company employees strike

EGYPT- Workers at Construction Company andBeheira Joint Company for Land Reclamation staged a sit-in, protesting for not receiving salaries for 10 months, due to company’s losses and lack of work coming in. 
The protest held at headquarters for Holding Company for Land Reclamation and Research Groundwater also came after the Minister of Manpower and Immigration Nahed Al-Ashry, refused to release 75 % of their basic salaries from emergency fund noting that the amount exceeds allowed limit.

According to figures, there are 1700 workers at Constructions Company, while other 15,000 who used to work in five companies affiliated with Beheira Company lost their jobs few years ago.