Preliminary results for General Syndicate of Engineers however.elections has placed Maged Kholousy as the front-runner to head the syndicate.
Kholousy is a candiate from the Muslim Brotherhood list. As vote counting continues in Cairo and the (...)
Strikes and riots after the 25 January revolution caused unemployment in Egypt to rise about 2 percent, a director at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.
Unemployment rose to 12 percent from 9.8 percent (...)
Egyptian laborers in Libya are safe and an official Egyptian delegation is scheduled to visit Libya before the end of October, Manpower and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hassan al-Borai said Friday.
Borai told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the number of (...)
Minister of Manpower Ahmed Hassan al-Borai has said that he would meet with the National Council for Wages in a few days to set a new minimum wage for private sector workers to guarantee them a decent standard of living.
“The 25 January revolution (...)
Coordinator of the doctor strike, Ahmed Atef, who was kidnapped at the strike, returned back to his family after a week of disappearance.
“I was kidnapped outside El-Nile Hospital in Shubra after been blindfolded and drugged. After being aware (...)
Doctors for the Sake of Egypt, which is comprised mainly of members from the Muslim Brotherhood, today won the position of Head of the Medical Association in more than ten governorates, including Beheria, where Ismail Ashour won; Giza, where Abdel (...)
The committee responsible for determining gender in the Syndicate “didn't receive any information or reports about the three girls who underwent sex changes in Dakahlia,” said Chairman of the Investigation Committee in the General Syndicate Saad (...)
Public Transport Authority (PTA) employees in Cairo suspended their strike on Tuesday after meeting with Egypt's manpower minister, who promised to respond to their demands.
The employees began the strike last week after management failed to meet (...)
The strike by public bus drivers has escalated after the Greater Cairo Transportation Company, which owns four garages, announced that it decided to join the strike which started six days ago.
Among the protesting drivers are 12 who went on hunger (...)
Abdel Rehim al-Ghoul, former leading member of the dissolved National Democratic Party, has accused members of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) of assaulting him.
The former MP said the assault took place as he attempted to apply to run in (...)
The public transport workers' strike entered its fourth day on Saturday and extended to include 20 bus garages. The protesters demanded a 200 percent bonus and a timetable to meet all their other demands.
Some marched from the garages to Tahrir (...)
Hundreds of public bus drivers "marched" their buses in procession Thursday from the Public Transportation Authority's office in Nasr City to the cabinet building in Garden City.
The drivers hoisted banners demanding better pay and working (...)
Thousands of bus drivers who work for the Public Transportation Authority went on strike at Cairo garages on Wednesday, declaring an open-ended sit-in until their demands are met.
The drivers had started a partial strike Sunday to demand higher pay, (...)
Ahmed Abdel Aziz Kattan, the Saudi ambassador to Cairo, has filed an offical complaint with the Egyptian attorney general concerning the recent attack on the Saudi Embassy, attaching a CD allegedly showing images of the incident.
“This was an attack (...)
The public transport workers' strike expanded as workers at several bus garages in Cairo joined on the second day.
On Monday workers at the Teraa Bolaqiya, Amiriya and Nasr City stations said they will strike until their demands are fulfilled.
On (...)
A dispute between the official Public Transport Workers Syndicate and its independent counterpart about staging a general strike escalated on Saturday, as workers at Fom al-Khaleeg Garage began the strike on Saturday in spite of the independent (...)
Egyptian protesters on Friday broke down parts of a protective concrete wall outside the building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
Protesters were using large wooden poles and hammers to bring down the wall. Others were dancing and singing in (...)
Samy Mahmoud, head of the Ministry of Tourism's international tourism department, said on Monday that the industry's total revenues for the current financial year will be around US$3 billion less than last year.
“We made US$12.8 billion last year,” (...)
Informed sources told Al-Mary Al-Youm on Saturday that a high-ranking military official visited the Israeli Embassy on Thursday evening and asked its staff not to re-raise the Israeli flag at the embassy.
Last Saturday evening, a young protester (...)
Manpower and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hassan al-Borai announced on Sunday the establishment of Egypt's first ever trade union for businessmen and businesswomen.
At the inauguration of the first syndicate for medical equipment importers, which was (...)
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf will meet with a delegation of the Iraqi Finance Ministry on Tuesday to resolve the problem of money owed by Iraq to Egyptian laborers, said Minister of Manpower Ahmed Hassan al-Borai. The case is known as the “yellow (...)
Minister of Manpower and Immigration Ahmed Hassan al-Borai said Monday that the Tahrir Square protesters' demands were legitimate, adding that the government was “working on achieving them.”
During a seminar at the ministry headquarters, Borai said, (...)
Delaying passage of the Freedom of Association Law and ignoring labor problems in Egypt would put it back on the International Labor Organization (ILO) black list, said Karin Kratz, head of the Freedom of Association Committee.
Kratz called for (...)
The Interior Ministry is preparing a draft law that would add several new electoral constituencies, so as to make it easier for citizens to cast their votes, said Assistant Interior Minister for Electoral Affairs Refaat Komsan.
“The draft would also (...)
The draft law on parliamentary elections will be presented to the Egyptian government on Wednesday, said Deputy Prime Minister Yehia al-Gamal on Monday.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) offered up the draft law regulating parliamentary (...)