The 2027 budget faces challenges regarding contracts; Parliament pushes for a resolution on permanent employment.
The 2027 budget faces challenges regarding contracts; Parliament pushes for a resolution on permanent employment.
10-3-2026
Information / Report
The Al-Zaidi government is facing one of its most complex structural and social crises, represented by the issue of contract and daily wage employees, who have become the segment most exposed to job injustice and living instability.
The continued procrastination by both the previous and current governments in regularizing the legal status of contract workers and daily wage earners has left the lives of thousands of families hostage to indefinite promises lacking a firm timeframe. This ongoing suffering is not merely an administrative failure, but a blatant violation of the principles of fairness and social justice.
In a significant political shift reflecting the extent of the deadlock in this matter, the House of Representatives threw its legislative and oversight weight into the procedural confrontation arena, announcing a firm stance linking the daily sustenance of these laborers to the most important financial document of the state.
Parliamentary opinion has settled on declaring a “legislative veto” against the upcoming general budget, as Parliament will not pass this crucial law unless it includes explicit, clear, and unambiguous texts that definitively settle the entitlements of contracts and wages and grant them full job security.
This parliamentary warning puts the executive authority before one choice that has no alternative: either to resolve the accumulated crises fairly for this segment, or to enter a tunnel that will disrupt the state’s financial machinery.
In this context, MP Mahmoud Al-Shammari stressed that the issue of regularizing the status of contract and daily wage employees in various ministries and state institutions has become a legal and moral obligation that falls on the government, stressing the need to include sufficient financial allocations to definitively resolve this entitlement within the general budget tables for 2027.
Al-Shammari told Al-Maalouma Agency, “The contract and daily wage workers have provided outstanding and continuous services for many years in running the service and production departments and filling the severe shortage of human resources, and it is unacceptable for their suffering to continue or for there to be procrastination in settling their employment conditions.” He added, “Fairness and stable living conditions for these employees represent a legislative priority that cannot be compromised within the House of Representatives.”
He added that “Parliament will exercise its oversight and legislative role to pressure the Ministry of Finance and the executive authority to include the deletion and creation grades and the necessary financial coverage to secure their permanent positions in the 2027 budget without any exception,” noting that “the country has an abundance of resources that enable it to address this vital issue if there is a genuine will to end the policy of procrastination and favoritism.”
He stressed that “the House of Representatives will not pass the next budget unless it includes clear and explicit texts that settle the entitlements of contracts and wages and grant them job security,” warning the government against “ignoring the legitimate demands of this broad group, given the negative repercussions this will have on the efficiency of government performance and social stability.”
For his part, Member of Parliament Mohammed Al-Moussawi revealed the expected date for sending the proposed federal general budget law for 2027 to Parliament, stressing that there is a governmental and parliamentary trend to reduce expenditures and activate the productive sectors.
Al-Moussawi told Al-Maalouma News Agency that “the Council of Ministers will send the proposed 2027 budget law to the House of Representatives during this month,” explaining that “the Parliamentary Finance Committee will immediately begin studying the budget and reviewing all its items upon its arrival so that it can be submitted for discussion and voting at the beginning of the tenth month.”
He added that “next year’s budget will differ significantly from its predecessors, focusing primarily on development programs and revitalizing the country’s productive sectors, as well as significantly reducing unnecessary government spending.” He predicted that “Parliament will pass the budget and vote on it definitively before the start of the new year.”
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