Hossam el-Hamalawy
Moufid Shehab, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, according to El-Badeel, admits:
The law in Egypt bans strikes, and this is against the international treaties we signed. But strikes must have regulations so as not to affect the vital state facilities. There are sectors where strikes should not be allowed.
We need to remember, every single strike that took place in the country, from December 2006 till today is “illegal” according to Mubarak’s laws.
Sarah Carr reports for the Daily News Egypt:
Rights group Doctors Without Rights (DWR) are planning to protest what they describe as the Health Ministry’s “deception.”
The group is staging a protest outside the Doctors’ Syndicate a day before Doctors’ Day on March 18, where Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif and Minister of Health Hatem Al-Gabaly will be honored during the syndicate’s celebrations.
In the statement announcing the protest, DWR denounce “the honoring of those responsible for doctors’ suffering” and call for an end to “the deception of doctors with make-believe incentive payments.”
Earlier this week independent daily Al-Dostour reported that during a meeting with Doctors’ Syndicate head Hamdy El-Sayyed, Nazif announced that incentive payments due to be received by specialists and consultants in June will not be paid because of “insufficient funds as a result of the global economic crisis.”
Nazif is reported to have said that the funds necessary to grant the incentive payments will not be available for another two years.
Helwan University’s Resistance Students are demonstrating this Tuesday, demanding education reforms.