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Egypt
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Politics
10/26/2022 10:39:00 PM
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Wednesday increasing the minimum wage for public employees from EGP 2,700 to EGP 3,000 and maintaining current electricity prices for households through June 2023.
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World
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International
10/5/2022 8:05:56 PM
Train travel in Britain was disrupted on Wednesday by the latest in a string of strikes by railway workers over wages.
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World
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International
9/15/2022 8:39:41 PM
Thousands of nurses returned to work Thursday at Minnesota hospitals following a three-day strike over wage increases and staffing and retention made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/30/2022 12:13:58 PM
Intense fighting was raging on Tuesday across the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russia, Kyiv's presidency said, as its troops pressed counter-offensives "in various directions".
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World
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International
8/28/2022 3:23:00 PM
Iberia Express, the low-cost arm of Spain's national carrier, cancelled eight domestic flights Sunday as cabin crew launched a 10-day strike for higher wages amid soaring inflation.
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Business
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Tech
8/4/2022 6:31:06 PM
More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay, in the latest sign of workplace friction stoked by Britain's cost of living crisis and a growing discontent among employees over wage and working conditions.
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Business
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Energy
8/3/2022 3:59:09 PM
The OPEC oil cartel and its allies decided Wednesday to boost production in September by a much slower pace than in previous months at a time of high oil prices and unstable energy supplies exacerbated by the war Russia has waged on Ukraine.
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World
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International
7/28/2022 10:58:29 PM
British Conservatives Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss Thursday underwent their first grilling in front of party members as they wage a bitter duel to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Business
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Economy
7/10/2022 5:33:24 PM
Egyptian Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said on Sunday that EGP 356 billion of the fiscal year (FY) 2022/23 budget has been allocated for social protection and subsidization, while another EGP 400 billion will go for improving conditions of public employees including wages and compensations.
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World
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International
6/25/2022 12:21:54 PM
Rising food costs. Soaring fuel bills. Wages that are not keeping pace. Inflation is plundering people's wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers' strikes around the world.
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Sports
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World
6/25/2022 10:22:12 AM
With this year's World Cup in Qatar clouded by labor and human rights issues, there's a push for the North American cities awarded games for the 2026 tournament to commit to livable wages, equitable hiring and worker protection.
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Business
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International
6/22/2022 6:38:30 PM
British annual inflation has hit a fresh 40-year high, official data showed Wednesday, further eroding workers' wages in a cost-of-living crisis, and heaping more pressuring the Bank of England to keep raising interest rates.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
3/29/2022 4:39:52 PM
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/3/2022 10:22:21 PM
Russian forces battled for control of a crucial energy-producing city in Ukraine's south on Thursday and gained ground in their bid to cut off the country from the sea, as Ukrainian leaders called on citizens to rise up and wage guerrilla war against the invaders.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
2/28/2022 9:18:12 PM
The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the UN estimating that more than 500,000 people have already escaped Russia's burgeoning war against Ukraine.
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Sports
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World
2/9/2022 6:21:00 PM
West Ham fined defender Kurt Zouma two weeks' wages and the player relinquished custody of his two cats as part of an animal-abuse investigation on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/28/2022 8:18:00 PM
A host of presidential decisions have been issued to alleviate many economic burdens, prime among them increasing the minimum wage and hiring more teachers.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/18/2022 5:13:24 PM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a directive on Tuesday to the finance ministry to raise the minimum wage for public sector employees from EGP 2,400 to EGP 2,700 in the state budget for the fiscal year 2022/23, the presidency announced.
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World
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Region
1/16/2022 9:32:27 AM
Tunisia's crisis-stricken economy needs "deep reforms" such as slashing its vast public wage bill, the International Monetary Fund's outgoing country chief has said as the government seeks a new bailout.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
1/6/2022 2:42:00 PM
The majority of Egypt’s private-sector employees will be getting a higher minimum wage starting this month.
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