Reviewing the basic law and compensation for night work for municipal employees – Al-Shorouk Online

Minister of the Interior, Local Governments and Transport, Saeed Saeed, revealed his ministry’s interests initiative to prepare a project to amend the basic law for municipal employees, while adjusting compensation mechanisms for night work by distinguishing between financial compensation within the framework of permanent rotational service and compensatory rest in cases of circumstantial overtime.
The first official in charge of the sector explained, in a written response to the representative’s question, Rabah Jeddou, dated last April 16, seen by Al-Shorouk, regarding addressing the organizational problems of the basic law for municipal employees, taking into account the new tasks, that his ministerial sector attaches great importance to reviewing and adapting the regulatory texts framed for employees and agents of regional groups, given their direct impact on controlling career paths and determining rights and duties, as well as clarifying the mechanisms for promotion and classification within the corps of local groups.
In this regard, Saeed explained that municipal employees are subject to the provisions of Executive Decree No. 11-334 of September 20, 2011, which includes the basic law for employees of the administration of regional groups, which includes several benefits related to the management of the employees’ professional path and the creation of new branches and departments.
Within the framework of the same approach, the interests of the Ministry of the Interior, Saeed says in his response, took the initiative to prepare a draft text aimed at amending the provisions of the same decree with the aim of adapting it in accordance with the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 14-266 of September 28, 2014, amending and supplementing the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 07-304 of September 29, 2007, which defines the evidentiary network for employees’ salaries and the system of paying their salaries, in order to achieve harmony and balance between the ranks with Academic qualifications and experience.
The minister added that the general basic law for the public job constitutes the general framework for the rules of the public job, as it established the general provisions for night work and the rights associated with it, and they are among the points that were the subject of the MP’s question. He also referred the definition of procedures and details of the special provisions to regulation according to the special basic laws, says the minister, which resorted to a comparison between financial compensation and compensatory rest based on a set of standards.
In the same regard, the official distinguished between the situation in which night work for the employee is a permanent, rotating service and an integral part, as he described it, of his regular work schedule, where the employee’s absence leads to paralysis in the functioning of the public facility or a gross lack of supervision, where financial compensation is usually approved for the benefit of the employees concerned, and the situation in which the employee is called to perform additional hours on a circumstantial basis outside the framework of his normal work schedule for urgent reasons or for the utmost necessity for the interest, in which case he benefits from compensatory rest.
The Minister also indicated in the same regard that public authorities are working to guarantee the rights of human resources at the level of all their affiliated bodies, as a strategic option – he says – that guarantees effectiveness and raises the quality of public service, especially at the level of local communities, and establishes the principle of continuity of public service in providing service.
The basic law for municipal employees regulates many points. In addition to the regulatory references related to the professional path and the compensation system, it also specifies the nature of field jobs and the requirements of public service.