Article 2 of National Workforce Law

The ninth clause of Article Five of the aforementioned Decree-Law No. 15 of 1979 shall be replaced by the following text: To consider such manpower and civil service affairs as the Council of Ministers deems appropriate to refer to it. The following clauses shall be added to the said Article: 1- Formulating policies for the employment of the national workforce in the various entities and monitoring their implementation so as to achieve equality and equal opportunities among all citizens. 2- Establishing systems that encourage non-governmental sectors to employ the national workforce and determining appropriate incentives to attract this workforce to those entities, in a manner that ensures coordination of the benefits and rights received by the workforce in all entities. 3- Taking measures that lead to coordination between the outputs of educational and training institutions and the employment opportunities available in the various entities. 4- Establishing a system for appointing employment affairs controllers in ministries, government departments and attached entities, subordinate to the Civil Service Bureau. h- Proposing policies relating to modifying the composition of the workforce in a manner that leads to the implementation of plans to replace expatriate labour with national labour, to the extent permitted by the possibilities of implementation. Article 3(1) The Government shall pay citizens who practise professions and trades and those who work in all entities a social allowance and an allowance for his children. The Council of Ministers shall, upon the proposal of the Council, issue decisions regulating this. These decisions shall determine the amount of each of the two aforementioned allowances, the conditions for entitlement thereto, the professions, trades, work and entities to which it applies, and the period during which the Government shall continue to pay them, provided that the children's allowance shall be fifty dinars for each child up to and including the seventh child (*). All of the foregoing shall be without prejudice to the acquired rights of employees in governmental entities prior to the issuance of this Law in respect of the social allowance and children's allowance to which they are entitled.