{"id":16916,"date":"2026-08-18T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:34:48","slug":"transport-workers-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/transport-workers-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Without Resignation: The Cost of Leaving Egypt\u2019s Transport Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The transport minister’s decision <\/span>to bar<\/span><\/a> new appointees from submitting resignation and leave requests for ten years did not come as a shock to “Walid” (a pseudonym), a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering, mechanical division; he had been through something similar seven years ago, when he left his job as a logistics officer at a well-known agency at Port Said port and applied, together with three of his friends, to the recruitment <\/span>competition<\/span><\/a> announced by the Railway Authority in 2019. After completing several “technical” tests at different bodies, and before the appointment decision was issued, he was surprised to be required to sign a commitment barring him from requesting resignation or leave for five years; his enthusiasm turned into anxiety and hesitation in the face of such restrictions, but after a brief objection he found no way out of signing, especially since he had given up his other job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Walid tells Zawia3 that signing up to work for five years without requesting leave or submitting a resignation was a mandatory condition for acceptance into the job, even though no one had informed him of it in the application conditions or while preparing the required papers; while he was at the Military Academy to begin training, consisting of physical fitness exercises, horse riding and lectures, he was surprised by an employee who came in with a paper and a pen and asked him to sign the contract, after taking away his phone so that he could not photograph it. When he asked, the employee replied that it was merely a procedure to complete the acceptance papers, and refused to give him a copy of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The five years became ten after Lieutenant General Engineer Kamel El-Wazir, the Minister of Transport, issued at the beginning of July new administrative <\/span>instructions<\/span><\/a> obliging the authorities, companies and bodies affiliated with the Ministry of Transport to bar new appointees from submitting requests for resignation, transfer, secondment, assignment or extended leave for ten years of actual work, starting from the date they take up their posts after completing the (technical and technological) training courses; the ministry also obliged the new appointee and his guardian or guarantor to sign a declaration including an undertaking to pay three times the costs of the tests and qualifying training, in addition to the entitlements paid out during the training period, if the ten-year term is not completed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n