The Union for Trade and Workers Services in Egypt called for linking any facilities, exemptions or loans obtained by the employers (companies and establishments) to preserving and fulfilling the workers’ rights.
The Union stressed in a report issued recently by activating articles 196 to 199 of the Labor Law No. 12 of 2003, whereby the employer must submit a request to close the facility or reduce its size or activity – if that affects the size of the workforce – to the committee formed for this purpose which issued the Prime Minister’s Resolution No. 984 of 2003, the application includes the reasons on which it is based, and the numbers and categories of workers who are laid off.
This committee is in charge of examining the seriousness of the economic necessities that call for this, and the opportunities to overcome them.
The report emphasized that the workers’ emergency benefits fund should be subject to the supervision of the committee formed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, stopping the payment of attendance allowances and the remuneration of the board of directors, and working to increase its balance with the contributions of business owners and their organizations and the contributions of other entities and parties that support workers.
The fund’s role, according to its regulations, disburses the worker’s insurance wage for a period of six months in cases of emergency where the employer is unable to pay workers’ wages for a specific period time.
The Union called for opening insurance offices to receive requests for unemployment compensation from workers who lose their jobs and to provide the opportunity for workers to register themselves without setting a deadline for that as well as disbursing a monthly grant to workers amounting to one thousand pounds, for a period of three months starting from this April, until the conditions resulting from Coronavirus pandemic crisis.
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