02
May
2013
Protesters demand Lebanon prioritize wage hike
Protesters in Beirut demanded Saturday that the government devote exclusive attention to studying a public sector salary scale draft law during next week’s Cabinet session and then refer it to Parliament. “The Cabinet session on March 21 should only be held for the salary scaly, its financing and referring to Parliament and [they should] remove all traps from its agenda that could prevent that,” Hanna Gharib, the head of the Union Coordination Committee, said during a protest outside the Finance Ministry. Civil servants and teachers have held almost daily protests outside several ministries, the port of Beirut as well…
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