The management of “BiscoMisr” company in Cairo and Alexandria ended the workers’ permanent contracts and kept only the temporary contracts for 3 months, starting with the arbitrary dismissal scenario by ending the contracts of hundreds of them.
The dismissed workers from the Cairo subsidiary affirmed that the abuse scenario started at the end of last year when the general manager of Kellogg’s of the Middle East and North Africa subsidiary refused to pay the annual profits of the employees on the pretext of not making enough profits compared to the previous years. However, some engineers confirmed that the company’s sales amounted to 750 million pounds.
It is noteworthy that more than 4000 workers in the branches of the company in Cairo and Alexandria organized an open-ended strike, last April in protest against their deprivation of their share of profits, until the intervention of a number of officials to stop the strike, which lasted 5 days, promising workers to fulfill and implement their requests. However, workers were surprised by the detention of some workers, who were accused of organizing a protest without a license.
The administration kept only workers of temporary contracts for three months, stopping another group of workers for 60 days, preventing them from entering the company, in addition to the arbitrary dismissal of three others before that these workers went to the labor office and filed a complaint against the company's management.
On the other hand, the Minister of Manpower contacted the administration to choose between either the sending of an official publication stating the expulsion of workers or the issuance of a decision to return workers to their work, but there was no response.
For its part, the general union of workers in the food industry confirmed that it held a session of collective negotiations with the board of directors of the company with the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Manpower to resolve the crisis of the arbitrary dismissal of a number of workers in the company. The union added that their demands were discussed including the withdraw from dismissing workers or the settlement of their situation giving them two months of salary for each working year.
The Department requested two weeks to communicate with the parent company in the United States of America to find a solution recommending the return of the workers or their continued dismissal and recourse to the labor courts.
It is known that multinational corporations are pursuing arbitrary practices against workers, especially since the law allows businessmen to exploit the slow pace of litigation procedures, and the non-activation of the labor courts' law for judicial separation. Therefore, these companies dismiss their workers easily which makes the unions ask for the faster implementation of the law.
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