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Important Definitions of the Labor Law Articles

Article III of the new Labor Code states the right of all workers in Egypt to the periodic (annual) bonus, which is not less than 7% of the base pay, which is given in addition to the the fare on a regular basis in the month of January of each year. This is a system that applies to all workers, whether they are paid based on periods or production. The employer may deprive the worker of part of his annual increment of not more than half, according to the Provisions of the Employment Regulations and the sanctions provided for in Article 60 of the new Labor Code. Also, Article IV states, but without prejudice to the provisions of the new law the rights of workers have previously obtained from the salaries and benefits derived from the laws, regulations, rules and conventions and resolutions of previous internal work of the Labor Law No. 12 for 2003, whether wages or other benefits derived from the provisions of the laws of the previous work
There are a number of definitions and general provisions must be adhered to in the application of the labor law:
• Worker: Every natural person who works for remuneration for an employer and under his administration or supervision.
• Employer: Every natural or legal person employing one or more for a fee.
• Salary: All what the worker gets for his work, whether it was constant or variable, cash or material.
• Commission: Is considered a fee that falls within the employment relationship.
• Percentage: What the employee may be paid for what to be produced, sold or collected throughout his work schedule.
• Grant: This is what is given to the worker in addition to wages as a reward for honesty or efficiency.
• Allowance: This is what is given to the worker to meet the circumstances or the particular risks in the performance of work.
• Endowment: It is like the percentage paid by customers for service in tourist facilities, and a decision of the competent minister in agreement with the trade union organization is issued on how to distribute it among employees and in consultation with the minister.
• Temporary work: Is work that is within nature is engaged in the employer's activity and requires a specific time frame to be done.
• Casual work: Is work that is within nature is not engaged in the employer's activity and doesn't require more than six months to be accomplished.
• Seasonal work: Is work done within periodic recognized seasons. • Night: The period between sunset and sunrise.
• Worker's share of the profits: Workers may be paid to work for part of the profits as their wages, or may be paid part of the profits in addition to their original pay.
Groups which are exempted from the application of the new labor law
Labor Code regulates the special ties arising from the work, and thus the scope of the originally determined to labor relations which exist between the parties under private law but the relations arising from work performed by the person for the State or public legal persons are subject to the provisions of administrative law, and includes all employees with the exception of the State and units of local administration is the provincial councils, cities, villages and neighborhoods and public bodies is the person in public law, which operates the public facilities and public juridical personality and budget independently of them. Also excluded are domestic workers, labor law, and the like from being subject to its terms and is due to the strong linkages and private between you and the employer's server and inform them of the secrets of their employers and their own affairs and the exclusion of domestic service and the like from being subject to the provisions of the Labor Code does not mean they do not enjoy any legal protection. But subject of this community with regard to the employment relationship which they are party to the provisions contained in the civil law of contract. The new labor law excludes family members who are dependents of the employer already has the law of the previous work shows the intended members of the employer's family as husband and wife and the assets of the employer and the dependents of its branches already then came the Labor Code did not define what the uniformed secret of the employer, and assign a reference to the provisions of Articles 34 , 35 of the Civil Code meant Ahdin identified and texts together the family members of the employer are generally Dhuh his relatives who share a common origin with either a direct kinship link between ascendants and descendants or notes about a link between people without a common origin to be one of them When the last branch of his dependents without actually limit the employer's family members on his relatives who are direct ascendants and descendants.
Violation of labor law and invalidity
Article 5 clarifies that states "is void condition or agreement contrary to the provisions of this law, even if the work previously done if Itsamn detracting from the rights of the worker assessments and continue to work with any benefits or better terms decided in individual employment contracts or collective or political systems or other regulations established or under custom and cut off all falsehood reconciliation include discharge of the rights of workers arising from the contract of employment during the duration of effect or within three months from the expiry date when they contravene the provisions of this law. Exemption from legal fees is not limited to making the case but charges include photos, certificates, abstracts and other fees for securities judicial and administrative fees and expert fees and implementation and publication of advertisements of judicial remuneration and other expenses borne by including liabilities does not differ from the concept of judicial expenses is governed by an opponent who lost the case . The court may rule in the coverage of claims of workers without access to ensure accelerated and despite an appeal to appeal the matter here and passports to the Court if the Court found that the verdict by the accelerated resulting in the occurrence of irreparable harm that it may fully reflected in the inclusion of access expedited ruling and exempt from stamp tax of all certificates, photos, complaints and requests given to them or provide them in accordance with the provisions of the law. The employer's responsibility to fulfill all the obligations stipulated in the Labor Code ends due to the liquidation of an enterprise or a final or closed does not entail the integration of the establishment in the other or being relocated to third parties any kind of action to end the decades, workers in these established or detract of their rights and successor shall be jointly liable with the previous employers on the implementation of the obligations arising from these contracts.
Enterprise liquidation
Offset by an enterprise of death for a natural person Taking the consequent shut down the final solution ended employment contract. Intended liquidation provided for in Article 9 of the Labor Code to liquidate the companies of civil and commercial liquidation of the final transfer of assets into cash in a piecemeal manner in which a liquidator by a particular majority partners in the companies people or appointed by the court, as did not agree on his appointment and his appointment as joint-stock companies in the General Assembly either in civil companies who shall liquidation either all of the partners or liquidator appointed by the majority or by the judge in the case of disagreement.
Shut down of the enterprise
If the employer stopped working and closed his business in a final and authorized manner, this ends all employment contracts, as the final stop is evidence that the institution is no longer profitable, justifying the termination of the employment contract. Bankruptcy does not necessarily entail the dissolution of the contract is not implemented at once and not as personal as to what the Chief was not there a legal provision requires annulment of the bankruptcy and Tnevsk by law to contracts to which the bankruptcy of their obligations by their nature or the will Akadin Feasible implementation, but not by the bankrupt and its implementation was affected the wealth of the bankrupt can not be implemented to raise his hand for the management of his assets.
Continuation of contracts of employment in the ownership transition of the facility
Ownership of the facility and move its integration into the sale or other company does not entail the transfer of ownership of the facility to end contracts of workers concluded with the previous owner but they remain a list of contracts with the new owner if its characteristics and conditions of the contract under a fixed-term as well.

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