{"id":1424,"date":"2018-02-07T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8081\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:27:56","slug":"egypts-new-labor-unions-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riad-riad.com\/egypts-new-labor-unions-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s New Labor Unions Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0new labor union organizations law\u00a0was issued last December under Law No. 213\/2017 (the \u201cLaw\u201d) replacing\u00a0previous labor union organizations law No. 35\/1976.\u00a0The Law explicitly provides for the prohibition of\u00a0establishing\u00a0labor\u00a0unions\u00a0based\u00a0on religious or political grounds or incorporating discriminative rules\u00a0in the\u00a0articles of association of\u00a0such organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In general, the Law maintains the three levels of\u00a0labor organizations with the same hierarchal competencies; on the top of the hierarchy lies the unions federation, then the general labor unions\u00a0comes and finally is the union committees inside the establishments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/newsletter%20issue%207\/article%20digram.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a significant change, the Law\u00a0tightened the conditions of\u00a0establishing a labor\u00a0organization\u00a0through requiring a higher number of workers to join the\u00a0labor\u00a0organization as members\u00a0according to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>(a) A Union Committee inside a\u00a0company\/establishment can only\u00a0be formed\u00a0with a minimum of 150 workers\/members, whereas the previous law required only 50\u00a0worker\/members.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>(b) A General Labor Union can only be established with a number of not less than 15 union committees\u00a0representing\u00a0&#8211; at least- 20,000 workers\/members, while the canceled law did not\u00a0require such a condition.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>(c) A\u00a0Labor\u00a0Union Federation can be established with\u00a0a number\u00a0of\u00a0not less than 10 General Labor Unions representing &#8211; at least &#8211; 200,000 workers\/members.\n<\/ul>\n<p>The executive regulation of the Law\u00a0shall\u00a0ascertain the conditions and procedures required for existing Labor Organizations to comply with the Law. Such compliance shall take place within 60 days (maximum) from the date of issuing the executive regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Existing Labor Organizations which\u00a0will not be able to satisfy\u00a0the above membership threshold will be dissolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the above restriction concerning the formation of a Labor Organizations, the Law introduces a number of provisions which can be seen as steps forward towards the liberalization of\u00a0Labor Organizations in Egypt. Among these provisions the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Law gives Union Organizations the authority to set its\u00a0own\u00a0articles of association,\u00a0adopt its internal administrative and financial regulations,\u00a0freely\u00a0elect its representatives and to organize its affairs independently from the public authorities. In the past \u2013 under the\u00a0cancelled law- the Labor Union Federation used to have the upper hand on all such matters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Law allows Union Committees to handle (collective and individual) disputes relating to its members and to sign on collective\u00a0bargaining agreements (\u201c<abbr title=\"collective\u00a0bargaining agreements\">CBAs<\/abbr>\u201d). Under the cancelled law, signing\u00a0<abbr title=\"collective\u00a0bargaining agreements\">CBAs<\/abbr> required signatures of the representatives of the general labor union.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If\u00a0the number of the members of the board of directors in any Union Organization\u00a0became less than half (for any reason), the general assembly\u00a0of said organization shall be invited within\u00a0fifteen days\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0at most- to\u00a0conduct supplementary elections.\u00a0According to the cancelled law, the composition of the board of directors \u2013 in this case- shall be deemed invalid and the board of directors of the higher Union Organization shall be responsible for the responsibilities of the invalidated board of directors until the composition of a new board of directors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to know more about this law and how it will impact your organization, please feel free to <a href=\"\/en\/#contact\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0new labor union organizations law\u00a0was issued last December under Law No. 213\/2017 (the \u201cLaw\u201d) replacing\u00a0previous labor union organizations law No. 35\/1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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