CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood MP Saber Aboul Fotouh, filed a questioning at the PA to investigate the Libyan authorities' decision to let go of 500,000 Egyptian workers without prior notice or compensation. Aboul Fotouh, also a member in the PA's manpower and immigration committee, sent a draft of his request to Daily News Egypt by email. He said that the Libyan authorities recently released a huge number of workers who are all over 50 "and will not be of use in the Egyptian market. He requested that Egyptian authorities negotiate with the Libyan side to guarantee financial compensation to those workers, who are likely to become a burden on Egypt. Aboul Fotouh sent his request to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Manpower and Immigration Aisha Abdel Hady. Last March, another MP affiliated the Brotherhood, Tarek Kotb, filed an urgent interrogation request to Nazif and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, asking them to interfere to bring back some 260 Egyptian workers from Libya. The workers were unable to return to Egypt because the construction company which employs them had taken away their passports. Kotb said that the workers were not paid for their three months of work and suffered "very bad working conditions.
