In its annual report, the Egyptian Organisation for Trade Unions and Labour Services monitored 8,041 violations of workers’ rights throughout the country during 2021, including arbitrary dismissal, forced resignation, delayed payment of salaries and the absence of a nursery. The Organisation, which won the French Republic for Human Rights Prize in 1999, revealed that many of these violations took place with the government’s knowledge. Moreover, the government was a party to many of them, as 1,629 of these violations were committed by government agencies. The most prominent events of 2021 on the labour scene At the beginning of 2021, the Minister of the Public Business Sector and the Chairman of the Holding Company for Metallurgical Industries decided to liquidate the … Continue reading Egypt faces unprecedented labour rights violations