Government ignores demands of state's employees

The delay in approving the special allowance for workers in Egypt, pushed MPs to attack the government, especially that workers worth the allowance since June 30, 2016.
 
The government is running away from the parliament to approve it, knowing that the workers are in dire need of this allowance, given the difficult living conditions experienced by the Egyptians because of the high cost of living resulting from high prices.

Arabs Today interviewed the Egyptian MP Mohamed Wahballah, deputy of the committee of the labor force in the House of Representatives, who expressed concern over the delay of the government in approving the allowance so far.

On the other hand, the MP reassured the employees that the allowance will be applied retrospectively from June 30, and that all employees will receive the full allowance.
 
Regarding the situation of the delay of the government in its approval, Wahballah stressed that it is the first time in the Egyptian history in which the suspension of delivering the special allowance happened for the employees for this entire period.

Concerning the reason for all this delay, despite holding of many sessions of the discussion, he explained that the government is running from the discussion, especially the Minister of Finance, Dr. Amr Al-Jarhi, who is responsible for this file.
 
Regarding the committee's procedures to contain the anger of the workers, the MP revealed during the interview that the committee is seeking to hold a meeting with the government as soon as possible before discussing the draft law in the April 26 session.

Regarding the reason for the delay in the last session of the parliament two weeks ago, he explained that it was in favor of workers, especially after the deletion of Article 5 in the draft law, which gives the right to workers in the public business sector to pay this allowance.

On the deadline for the payment of the premium, he called the government not to be absent from the discussion meeting to speed the approval of the allowance and paying it for workers in the fastest time in last July.