An initial labor commission has granted an Egyptian physician SR128,000 in compensation, payment of ten-month delayed salary, vacation allowances, and end of service benefits in a case the physician filed against his employer. Ahmad Hasnain, a cardiologist who worked for the polyclinic for nine yeas, said that the employer failed to meet the terms of the contract including the salary payment for 10 months and the vacation allowances for the last seven years. Feeling the pinch of labor tyranny, the man decided to officially resort to authorities, he said. The owner, however, appealed the verdict with the higher labor commission which will look into the case in six months. Hasnain feared that the owner may soon sell the polyclinic and go bankrupt before the higher commission decides on the case, with which his compensation would disappear in thin air, he said. – Okaz __
