{"id":197401,"date":"2025-05-04T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-allocates-egp-297m-labour-day-grant-for-informal-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:39:45","slug":"egypt-allocates-egp-297m-labour-day-grant-for-informal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-allocates-egp-297m-labour-day-grant-for-informal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Allocates Egp 297m Labour Day Grant for Informal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Egypt has approved a 297.4 million-Egyptian-pound payout for informal workers ahead of Labour Day, as the government moves to expand social protections under President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi&#8217;s latest support package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Each eligible worker &#8211; registered in the ministry&#8217;s database &#8211; will receive 1,500 pounds, up from 1,000 pounds in previous years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Labour Minister Mohamed Gebran announced the decision on Wednesday, confirming that disbursements will begin early next week for registered informal workers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has approved a 297.4 million-Egyptian-pound payout for informal workers ahead of Labour Day, as the government moves to expand social protections under President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi&#8217;s latest support package. Each eligible worker &#8211; registered in the ministry&#8217;s database &#8211; will receive 1,500 pounds, up from 1,000 pounds in previous years. Labour Minister Mohamed Gebran announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[51279,258,256,13703,7165,19866,4697,415,13356,8353,8361,257,254,6498],"class_list":["post-197401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-297m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allocates","tag-day","tag-egp","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-grant","tag-informal","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}