(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) Around 240 workers from the Tanta Linen Factory staged a protest in front of the EgyptianTradeUnion Federation(EFTU) demanding the government's intervention to rehire them in the factory after they were forced into early retirement. All of the protesting workers, men and women, are past the age of 56. They demanded that they should return to the factory, after a court verdict in 2011 ordered that the factory should return back to the public sector after it was privatised. During the Mubarak era, several public sector companies were sold to foreign and domestic investors, which forced thousands of workers countrywide to go into early retirement. In 2011,he workers of the Tanta Linen Factory were granted a court verdict that secured their return.

Source: Daily News Egypt October 24, 2016 16:30 UTC