The Tadamon coalition that includes 30 labour and employees associations cancelled Thursday their scheduled one-million man protest against the controversial new Civil Service Law, Al-Bawaba News reported. Tadamon had called for a protest in Fostat Park in Cairo, demanding immediate amendment of the law in the way that guarantees a safe and stable work environment and wages that fit the needs of the state workers. The civil service law, passed last March shortly before Egypt's International Economic Conference, aims to reform Egypt's administrative apparatus in order to encourage investments by curbing bureaucratic inefficiencies and streamlining hiring practices and wage-structures in government institutions. According to the new law, basic salaries would constitute 80 percent of overall wages in all government institutions as opposed to the older unit-by-unit system of determination, while bonuses, traditionally dependent on seniority, would be calculated based on performance.
