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Egypt's workers have the right to social insurance

The LCHR held a meeting attended by thirty workers from different companies on 19.5.2010. the meeting discussed the rights of workers in social security as a natural right of workers, as it aims to protect them from the work injury and disability, disease and aging, the meeting discussed the fears of workers from health insurance bill put forward by the government as the meeting stressed the need to reform the social insurance system in the development and granting privileges to users and pensioners. Given the outstanding contributions of the participants is the Insurance Act, the Egyptian higher contributions in the world, paid working 40% of the wage insurance, 14% borne by the Group and 26% borne by the employer, the remuneration of insurance is not appropriate in any way to achieve an adequate standard of living is the maximum wage insurance 800 pounds not to mention the tragic figure of the minimum which needs to be reconsidered to be associated with this evaluation variables of living and high prices. The free market economy and privatization made the situation of workers worse, with widespread unemployment which makes supply on the labor market less than required, giving an opportunity for employers to pressure workers to accept the conditions of low as the acceptance of working to secure him the lowest segment of insurance, lack of supervision Insurance Authority, especially in new industrial cities and access to incorrect data on the wages of workers by employers to avoid providing real data for this pay all necessary to monitor the top of the body according to the laws give the right to supervise wage workers. LCHR believes that it must stop the depletion of the insurance money in compliance with laws and that the State is required to pay the Social Insurance Fund to finance the independence of the Fund. LCHR calls on the human rights organizations, trade unions and people's deputies to unite in an effort to protect the insurance funds, in solidarity to work together to ensure the rights of workers to a decent and safe life.