The League of Public Administration Employees, in coordination with the Public Sector Leagues Gathering, called on all employees in public administrations to continue the escalation and abstain from work throughout next week, starting from Monday, 19/1/2026 until Sunday, 25/1/2026 inclusive. It affirmed its full commitment to its demands without any concessions, due to the government’s continued disregard for the employees’ demands, despite the meetings held by the League with various officials, from the President of the Republic to the Prime Minister, the Speaker of Parliament, ministers, and heads of parliamentary blocs, which only resulted in unfulfilled promises.
The League of Public Administration Employees explained in a statement that the government’s position and its disregard for the suffocating social, financial, and living crisis that employees are experiencing does not reflect any real reformist direction for the administration, nor a serious endeavor to find solutions and save citizens from poverty and hunger. It considered that the employee is paying today the price of the financial and economic collapse caused by the political class through deals, policies, financial engineering, and corruption.
The League affirmed that “there is no corrupt employee unless there is a political official behind him who supports him who is hundreds of times more corrupt than him,” considering that it is unacceptable to hold the employee responsible for the results of what the political class committed, which overdid the destruction of the economy, while the employee is answered when demanding his rights that financial resources are not available.
It stressed that employees’ rights are a top priority, noting that they continued to work during the years of the war and in the most difficult circumstances, passing through the financial crises since the eighties, up to the 2019 crisis, the Corona pandemic, and even today, stressing that ministries and public administrations rely on the efforts of their employees, and that the dignity of the employee is not negotiable. It announced its rejection of World Bank projects that aim to harm the public sector without addressing the real reasons that led to the current economic situation.
The League renewed its demands for approval of a new salary scale that restores salaries to their value before the economic collapse of 2019 by 100%, to be implemented over a maximum of two and a half years starting in 2026, taking into account inflation rates and the rise in the cost of living. It also demanded the preservation of all increases that workers in public administrations have received since the beginning of the collapse and their inclusion in the basic salary until the issuance of the new scale, in a way that achieves justice and equality between different categories and functional ranks, in addition to approving a retirement system for contractors and employees in public administrations in various administrative, technical, military, and educational ranks, and raising the retirement age to 68 years.
It warned against any plan that aims to prejudice retirement pensions, reduce them, or violate the rights of beneficiaries, considering them to be fixed rights under the law and taking into account social conditions in the absence of any social policy that guarantees the rights of citizens.
The League concluded by emphasizing that its union struggle continues without stopping or retreating to defend the rights of employees and reject policies that harm the public sector, stressing that any reform plan must have the “League of Public Administration Employees” as an effective partner in it, to convey the reality of employees and their vision for solutions, considering that any reform cannot be realistic or correct without involving those directly concerned with it.
