Algerian President Orders Government to Raise Minimum Wage

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune instructed the government to prepare decrees to raise both minimum wage and unemployment benefits, the cabinet says in statement.

• NOTE: Monthly minimum wage in Algeria for both public and private sectors is currently 20,000 dinars
• NOTE: Algeria in early 2022 became one of the first countries in Africa to enact a permanent unemployment-benefits program; monthly allowance is 13,000 dinars
• Tebboune also ordered an investigation into “the causes of fires that broke out simultaneously in several provinces last weekend”

--With assistance from Salah Slimani.

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