Easily manage employment in Egypt

Employees are entitled to 21 days of paid leave annually after spending six months working with an employer.

There are 14 public holidays during which employees are entitled to paid time off work. If required to work on a public holiday, employees are entitled to three times their regular wage.

Employees are entitled to 180 days of paid sick leave annually, compensated at 75% of the employee’s normal wages for the first 90 days of the illness and at 80% for the next 90 days.

Female employees who’ve been working with an employer for at least 10 months are entitled to three months of paid maternity leave for up to three births, with maternity benefits equivalent to 75% of the employee’s last pay.Postpartum employees can take an hour or two half-hours off every day to breastfeed for 24 months post-delivery. Additionally, organisations with 100 or more employees are mandated to provide in-house nurseries or foot the nursery costs for employees’ babies until they reach school age.

Fathers are not entitled to any statutory parental leave under Egyptian law, but mothers can take up to 24 months of unpaid leave for each children.

Egyptian labour law demands that employers honour any study leave agreements made during collective bargaining but doesn’t specify duration or circumstances.

- Adoption: Adoptive parents are entitled to 15 days of leave, from the day their child is handed over to their legal custody.- Casual leave: Employees can take up to six days of casual leave annually, in instalments of two days at a time, which will be subtracted from the employee’s annual leave entitlement.- Pilgrimage leave: After spending five years with an employer, employees can request an entire month of fully paid pilgrimage leave, although only once during the employee’s tenure.