{"id":589092,"date":"2023-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/06\/21\/private-sector-minimum-wage-hike-dominates-talkshows\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:00:00","slug":"private-sector-minimum-wage-hike-dominates-talkshows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/06\/21\/private-sector-minimum-wage-hike-dominates-talkshows\/","title":{"rendered":"Private-sector minimum wage hike dominates talkshows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The nation\u2019s talking heads last night focused on fresh hikes to the private-sector <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">minimum wage,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> with some also giving airtime to the latest headlines on our economic reform agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Some 21 mn employees will benefit from the National Council for Wages\u2019 (NCW) decision to hike the private-sector minimum wage <\/span><span>by 11% to EGP 3k per month, NCW Coordinator Hanan Nazeer told Sherif Amer on Hadith fi Masr (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?ref=embed_video&v=627602259302437\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 6:57<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">). We have all the details on the wage hike in the news well, above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Another wage hike coming? <\/span><span>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 (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1748048202317097\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 3:43<\/a><\/span><span>). The increase also got coverage from Mostafa Shardy on Al Hayah Al Youm (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=3673459829542290\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 5:10<\/a><\/span><span>) and Ramy Radwan on Masa\u2019a DMC (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dmctv\/videos\/228811736673762\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 5:21<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Ala Mas\u2019ouleety\u2019s Ahmed Moussa seemed less than pleased with IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva<\/span><span> after she urged the country to transition to a fully flexible exchange rate regime in an interview with Asharq Business.<\/span><span> \u201cAre we selling out Egyptians for USD 3 bn?\u201d Moussa asked (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1A9kMBFmkOc&ab_channel=SadaElbalad-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%89%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 5:12<\/a><\/span><span> | <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vrs5yrtpgXg&ab_channel=SadaElbalad-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%89%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF\" style=\"\">3:27<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">). We have more on Georgieva\u2019s comments in What We\u2019re Tracking Today, above. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">As is customary, state pensions will be disbursed before Eid: <\/span><span style=\"\">Some 11 mn beneficiaries of state <\/span><span>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 (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=674888771120060\" style=\"\">watch, runtime: 10:44<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another minimum wage hike could be in the cards this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7232],"tags":[1419,72,655,272,1368,235,106,71,587],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-589092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-last-nights-talk-shows","tag-egp","tag-enterpriseam","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-imf","tag-kristalina-georgieva","tag-labor","tag-last-nights-talk-shows","tag-minimum-wage","tag-state-privatization-program","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"03b173f3-6e3f-4961-9803-11d634993e54","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/6\/1078.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Private-sector minimum wage hike dominates Egyptian talkshows. 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