"Parliament forces" agree in principle to the draft amendment to the law of trade union organizations

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For his part, MP Abdel Fattah Mohamed, Secretary of the Manpower Committee, said that the committee approved the draft law in principle, for its great importance in the development of union work in Egypt. He pointed out that the committee will determine in the coming days a meeting to discuss the draft law articles The current session.

The amendments include 9 articles, in which the government reduces the minimum necessary to form trade union organizations by reducing the number required to form a trade union committee from 150 workers to 50 workers only, and forming the trade union of 15 trade union committees with at least 20 thousand workers, Its membership is 15 thousand workers.

The new amendments revoke penalties for freedoms, with the fine being tightened or sometimes repealed and replaced with penal code.

In the explanatory memorandum to the bill, the government said the amendments were in response to ILO observations, noting that the Supreme Council for Community Dialogue in the field of labor, which includes members of companies, labor organizations and the government, approved the amendments before submitting them.

For its part, the Federation of Industries said in the explanatory note attached to the amendments that the current law requires that the trade union committee be formed of at least 150 workers. The period stipulated by the law represented a transitional period and the country is experiencing difficult economic conditions. The impact of trade unionism negatively on the economy in general.

He pointed out that the improvement of the economic situation, the rise of export indicators, economic growth and the stability of the trade union movement allowed for the easing of procedures in the formation of trade union organizations, which gave the government an opportunity to amend the law.