Summary:

On Tuesday, 16 July 2024, public employees of the Environment, Planting, and Horticulture Company in Tataouine organized a series of protests in eight different locations in response to salary delays. 

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Frustrations amongst workers over delayed salary payments have been an ongoing issue since the signing in 2020 of an agreement to classify the company as a public joint-stock institution under supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture.  

Amongst the protesters demands were requests that the entity formed in 2020 be classified such that workers would benefit from the general wage increases for public sector workers announced in 2023.   

Outlook: 

The creation of jobs within the Environment, Planting and Horticulture Company was one of the tenets of a 2017 agreement signed to resolve the crisis of El-Kamour. The agreement was negotiated after a series of clashes between protestors and police after an oil pumping station was shut down by protestors who were frustrated with ongoing unemployment challenges in the region.

With delayed salary payments continuing to strain relations between the Company and its workers as various agreements go unimplemented, protests are likely to continue and potentially grow. 

Continued challenges with unemployment and poor working conditions are likely to foster increases in the trafficking of goods and narcotics in the region as young people lose faith in the government’s capacity to provide jobs. 

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