The nation’s talking heads last night focused on fresh hikes to the private-sector minimum wage, with some also giving airtime to the latest headlines on our economic reform agenda.

Some 21 mn employees will benefit from the National Council for Wages’ (NCW) decision to hike the private-sector minimum wage by 11% to EGP 3k per month, NCW Coordinator Hanan Nazeer told Sherif Amer on Hadith fi Masr (watch, runtime: 6:57). We have all the details on the wage hike in the news well, above.

Another wage hike coming? The NCW will consider raising the minimum wage again before the end of the year, Alaa El Sakty, a member of the NCW and head of the SME Investors Association, told Amer (watch, runtime: 3:43). The increase also got coverage from Mostafa Shardy on Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 5:10) and Ramy Radwan on Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 5:21).

Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa seemed less than pleased with IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva after she urged the country to transition to a fully flexible exchange rate regime in an interview with Asharq Business. “Are we selling out Egyptians for USD 3 bn?” Moussa asked (watch, runtime: 5:12 | 3:27). We have more on Georgieva’s comments in What We’re Tracking Today, above.

As is customary, state pensions will be disbursed before Eid: Some 11 mn beneficiaries of state pensions will get around EGP 29 bn in total disbursed to them ahead of Eid, the head of the National Social Ins. Authority told Ahmed Moussa last night (watch, runtime: 10:44).

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