Files: Economic Rights

21 May 2024

In a new study by EIPR: Increasing pensions will not protect the pensioners’ rights against inflation and labour market conditions

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released research titled “Pensioner Rights Pitted Against the Economic Crisis... A Critical Study of the Social Insurance and Pensions Law No. 148 of 2019”.

The paper reviews the change in pensioners’ conditions in light of the acute cost of living crisis and within the framework of the social insurance law and the amendments it introduced to the pension system.

1 May 2024

A difficult year for Egypt's workers

This year's Labour Day marks a very difficult year for all wage earners in Egypt. The public debt crisis, the exchange rate crunch that resulted in significant devaluations of the local currency against the US dollar, the successive inflation shocks, the rises in commodity prices, and the economic policies sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have all dealt successive painful blows to wages and living standards of the majority of wage dependants in Egypt.

21 Apr 2024

What we know about teachers’ status in Egypt

Egypt is grappling with a significant crisis in the number of teachers and their poor salaries, whether those with permanent, temporary or freelance contracts. The shortage in the number of teachers in Egypt is estimated at tens of thousands. According to the current minister of education, Reda Hegazy, 20,000 teachers are needed annually to fill the deficit, while many teachers retire due to reaching retirement age.

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