Tomorrow, Saturday, the Supreme Constitutional Court, headed by Counselor Saeed Marei, will rule on Case No. 118 of the Constitutional Year 40, claiming the unconstitutionality of the second paragraph of Article 8 of Law No. 13 of 2007 regarding the abolition of the Rural Electricity Authority and the transfer of its assets to electricity transmission and distribution companies.
Article 8 states: The workers employed in the Rural Electrification Authority shall be transferred from the date this law comes into effect to the electricity transmission and distribution companies in the same territorial scope of their work sites in the Authority, and the transfer shall be in phases of time that end with the expiration of the period stipulated in Article One, and these stages and the number of those transferred are determined. In it and the company or companies to which they are transferred, a decision of the Minister in charge of electricity and energy affairs. In all cases, workers are transferred with the same employment statuses, and their wages, allowances, vacations, cash and in-kind benefits are kept for them in accordance with the rules governing these conditions, rights and benefits before the transfer, even if they exceed what they are entitled to in the companies they are transferred to without affecting in the future the benefits or bonuses they deserve in these Companies.
It is not permissible for the transferred worker - in accordance with Article 8 - to combine any of the benefits retained for him in a personal capacity with any similar advantage in the company to which he is transferred. The minister in charge of electricity and energy affairs shall set the rules for the beneficiaries of the funds for the workers in the Rural Electrification Authority who are transferred to the electricity transmission and distribution companies, ensuring the preservation of all their rights.
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