Hotels compliance with employment protection legislations : evidence from Egypt

Abstract EN

It is assumed that employment protection legislations reduce the power of employers and protect the workers from negative consequences.

Many hotels' employees face unfair and illegal practices in their workplace.

Yet, the studies that tried to address the hotels' compliance with employment protection legislations, in the Egyptian context, are too scarce.

This study aims to measuring the level of the hotels' compliance with employment protection legislations, in the Egyptian context.

The study adopted a quantitative method (self-administrated questionnaire).

Depending on a stratified sample, the data was collected from (457) employees, working in the private-sector hotels in Egypt.

The study revealed that, the levels of the hotels' compliance to EPLs, are extremely unsatisfactory.

These results are in line with numerous studies and workers complaints.

Recommendations to government and policy makers, the union of workers, the hotel management, and the individual employees are provided.