El-Sen, the trade union of employees of the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek), has announced that it has sued the authority over the hiring of workers who had not sat the mandatory recruitment examinations. The union’s general secretary said “our union is a union which defends merit and is against nepotism … because, as a rule, in all collective agreements in force since 2019, employment to Kib-Tek must be made through a publicly advertised vacancy and a written examination.”
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