Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Tunisia as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Tunisia: Finalisation of Labour Code Amendment
The final draft of a Bill designed to remove the legality of both subcontracting and fixed-term employment contracts in the private sector has now been circulated around the Ministry of Social Affairs …
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Tunisia: Increased cooperation in vocational training, employment with Egypt
Tunisia’s Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Nasreddine Nsibi, met recently in Cairo with Egyptian Minister of Manpower, Hassan Shehata …
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Tunisia: Modest wage deal may clinch IMF loan and credit decision
The government has just reached a pay deal in the public sector covering 2023-25, providing for a modest 3 …
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Tunisia: Government to slash public sector pay to unlock IMF loan
The near bankrupt condition of the country’s coffers is leading it to propose major pay cuts, particularly in the public sector …
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Tunisia: UGTT announces strike against proposed spending cuts
General strike called for 16th June 2022 by UGTT trade union …
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Tunisia: Protests erupt demanding activation of law 38
President Kais Saied has revoked law 38 which provided public sector jobs for the unemployed …
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Tunisia: Government says it will implement all deals reached with union
Although talks with the IMF on a new loan package are underway, the Employment Minister has announced he is committed to all deals reached with the powerful UGTT union …
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Tunisia: Parliament approves economic recovery and foreign exchange law
The Tunisian Parliament has just been suspended by the State President and the Prime Minister dismissed from office …
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Tunisia: State liable for treatment disputes
The Health and Social Affairs Committee of the Tunisian Parliament has voted to support a Bill that would shift all liability for the licenced use of vaccines and anti-coronavirus treatments to be met by the state budget …
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Tunisia: Government raises minimum wages, pensions to tackle discontent
Low paid industrial workers were subject to a formal wage adjustment on May 1st 2019 when the government increased the monthly minimum wage by 6 …
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Tunisia: Public wage bill remains among highest in world
The sharp rise in public sector employment had led the IMF to warn that it could have a damaging impact on the economy …
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Tunisia: Parliament to consider criminalizing racial discrimination
Although a Bill to criminalize racial discrimination was submitted to the national parliament back in the June 2016 it took until January this year to reach the parliamentary committee on rights, freedoms and foreign relations and still awaits parliamentary debate …
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Tunisia: Anti-race discrimination law proposed
The country is poised to be the second country in Africa to pass an anti-race discrimination law …
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Tunisia: Draft law in pipeline to tackle fictitious contracts
The government’s Vocational Training and Employment Ministry is working with the Employment Agencies Association to draft a new law that will protect job seekers from fictitious contracts abroad …
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Tunisia: The growing power of labor union
Many companies have been considering investments in the one country that appears to have successfully emerged from the ‘Arab Spring’ …
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