Three Egyptian companies are complaining that Libyan authorities have set excessively difficult conditions on Egyptian laborers seeking permits to work in the North African republic, company officials say.
The conditions, company officials add, threaten to affect a tender they won two years ago to build a power station in Libya worth some LE150 million.
Conditions set by Libyan authorities reportedly include the acquisition of numerous permits from various Libyan state agencies at very high fees, which had not been included in initial feasibility studies for the project. Under the new conditions, the cost per worker incurred by the companies in question has risen from 15 Libyan dinars to 60 dinars per day.
Egyptian Manpower Minister Aisha Abdel Hadi has been briefed on the problem, while a ministry delegation has broached the subject with Libyan authorities in an effort to resolve the issue.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
