Egypt’s National Wage Council announced that the minimum wage will be executed in the private sector on January 1, 2022, and based on the National Council for Wages’ decision, the minimum wage for private-sector workers was set at 2,400 pounds.
The application of the minimum wage to establishments that have requested exemptions due to the economic conditions caused by the Corona pandemic will be delayed until the end of mid-February next year.
According to Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning and Economic Development and Chair of the National Wages Council, the Council tried, through its various committees, to strike a balance between workers’ rights to adequate wages and the difficult economic conditions that several sectors.
Al-Saeed went on to explain that the National Council for Wages’ decisions will be binding under the new labor law that was debated in the Senate and will be debated in the House of Representatives in the coming weeks.