Fair and Living Wage Practice

All employment policies

1. Purpose

To ensure that all directly employed staff are paid fairly and at or above a living-wage benchmark.

2. Scope

This policy applies across Future University in Egypt — all faculties, the Dental Hospital, the training Pharmaceutical Factory, student housing and administrative units — and to students, faculty, staff and, where stated, contractors and suppliers.

3. Definitions

Living wage

A pay level sufficient to meet the basic needs of an employee and their family in Greater Cairo, benchmarked against recognised cost-of-living data.

Job-classification system

The structured grading of posts that determines pay ranges.

4. Policy statement

• FUE pays directly employed staff at or above a living-wage benchmark for Greater Cairo, reviewed annually against cost-of-living data.
• Pay is administered through a transparent job-classification system that ranks each post.
• Gender pay equity is measured and tracked each year.

5. Procedures

1. Human Resources benchmarks the lowest pay grade against a recognised living-wage reference for Greater Cairo each year.
2. Each post is mapped to a grade in the job-classification system; starting pay may not fall below the grade minimum.
3. A gender pay-gap analysis is produced annually and reviewed by the EDI Committee; identified gaps are addressed through a documented action plan.

6. Roles and responsibilities

• Human Resources — benchmarks pay and runs the annual gender pay-gap analysis.
• Finance — funds the pay structure.
• EDI Committee — reviews the pay-gap analysis.

7. Related policies

• Labour Rights and Freedom of Association
• Employee Grievance and Appeal Procedure

8. Legal and cultural alignment

Built on the Egyptian Labour Law's minimum-wage and wage-protection provisions and on the national minimum-wage decisions, with an additional living-wage benchmark reflecting the cost of living in Greater Cairo.

9. Monitoring and review

Reviewed at least every three years, or sooner if Egyptian law, regulations of the Supreme Council of Universities, or THE/accreditation requirements change. The policy owner is responsible for monitoring how it is applied.

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