Saad El-Husseini told the People's Assembly that the change would be implemented at the start of July.

 

Egypt has an estimated 500,000 government employees on temporary contracts.

 

Around 5.8 million people work for the public administration, a figure that will likely climb to 6.3 million if temporary workers are finally granted tenure, Safwat El-Nahas head of the Central Agency for Organisation and Administration (CAOA), has previously said.

 

Temporary contracts were introduced to Egypt's public administration in 2000 in a bid to compensate for labour shortages while keeping the state budget at a manageable level.