EGYPT- Without prior notice, management of Lenin Group for Furniture Co. dismissed labor leader, Mohammed Hassan Abu al-Yazidi, claiming that he illegally rallied the company’s workers to attend an ILO workshop on workers’ rights for trade union members in Alexandria.
Abu al-Yazidi and four of his colleagues were dismissed for attending an ILO training session. 29th of November, 2014 dismissal notice to read as follows “This is an official notice that you have been suspended without pay until end of investigation on your involvement in inciting and gathering workers to attend events outside the premises, which would undermine our enterprise.”
For his part, Abu Yazidi expressed his condemnation of this decision, which was based on Article 110 in law No.12 in Egyptian Labor Law of 2003, noting that such condition was not fulfilled. The law provides that management should notify worker twice before any dismissal decision, a matter that did not happen.
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