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The rights of temporary workers in the wind
The Centre has received dozens of complaints of some temporary workers in the governmental sector and the private sector, which were affected by the violation of their rights to decent work and the lack of safeguards to protect them from displacement, segregation. To make it worse, the government agencies use such employment without editing work contracts to them, or to give them health and social insurance, in a violation to the law and conventions of international labor organization.
It's probable that the construction, agriculture, irrigation and education sectors are the most prominent sectors that witness violations of the rights of temporary workers for fair wage, job security, and social and health insurance.
The center is bristled from such violations on a time that witnesses the trends and the statements of government to change the situation for more than 6 million employees, and turning them from permanent employment (the only feature remaining in public office) to temporary work, and expansion in terms of separation and displacement of staff, which was reflected in the draft of Civil Service Law, which raised a lot of controversy, leading the government to have a temporary decline from issuing that law. The government is currently studying in secret how to issue this law after the amendment of some items, which means the disposal of government employees, as happened with the employees in the privatization of public sector companies during the last ten years.
According to semi-official tendencies, the government intends to get rid of 1.1 million workers and handicraft works (drivers - Technicians - couriers), referring them to work at companies that are specialized in providing support services workers, in the shape of the general affairs, hygiene and professional services.
The government also intends to get rid of more than half a million of temporary staff member, since the draft law did not speak directly or by indirectly about them, as if they primarily do not exist, in contradiction with the statements of Minister of Finance and Industry, who said before that there is a plan to install all temporary workers in the government and the business sector.
The government created other formulas in the bill, which is studied in secret, to deny these workers and staff from working consistently. Some of the texts emphasizes that temporary workers have the right to permanently hired after three years of work on a temporary basis, according to the bill. The contract is annulled every 58 days, and therefore the government can get rid of the millions of temporary workers by editing new employment contracts, separating by a day or two between each of them.
It is astonishing that the Minister of Administrative Development did not find any embarrassment in stating that the government found a thriving model in the private sector, which achieved a boom in the economy as a result invented the principle of "try hard I work ... ... reap a lot" in response to a claim of temporary employment subway, which has been working more than 3 years in the installation. In addition, some of them exceeded more than 12 years without a set. The contract provides for the dissolution at any time without giving reasons and without compensation of working!
On the time the Head of the Central organization and administration emphasizes the State is not in need of 90% of temporary jobs as they do not meet these posts and do not reflect the real need within the administrative body of the state; however, the State was required to maintain such employment in mind for the sake of Social Dimension...!!! Is it reasonable to demand equality between them and the permanent employees of the State!! The Centre is asking whether the rights of these temporary workers of the state, and who have been working for more than ten years, are a gift from the government or not?! Isn't not fixing them and the infringement of their rights is a violation of the rights of workers, which requires the punishment of state institutions and ministers? State institutions attempts to mitigate these violations; the Central system, in a rare step, issued a periodic book, a year ago, in the form of resolutions and the job principles, where it addresses government entities to ensure these rights, like paying special bonuses and the granting of annual leaves and the temporary ones, and granting all the rights of insurance and other services as transportation, nurseries and treatment and so on, especially as their number within the government is over half a million temporary workers, without mentioning the number who worked the special funds
Land center stresses that the rights of temporary workers in the public sector, private and government agencies must be implemented by editing the permanent work contracts to them and health and social insurance for them, and the dates must be at the beginning of their work because those rights enshrined in the Constitution, international instruments and ILO conventions as rights of labor genuine and not a grant from the government.
It also stresses the need for discussing bill with civil society organizations, organizations of workers and independent unions; or announcement of ceasing it, not only postponing it.
The center calls upon the Prime Minister and relevant ministries to secure the temporary employment and grant health and social insurance for them from the dates of the beginning of their work to ensure the rights of millions of workers in employment and decent job security and decent life.