MP Kanaan Calls for Session to Grant Rights to Civil Defense Volunteers
Change and Reform MP Ibrahim Kanaan demanded on Thursday a parliamentary session to grant Civil Defense volunteers full-time employment, considering that any attempt to block the matter “will not pass.”
“Next week will be a landmark concerning the credibility of all parliamentary blocs regarding the Civil Defense demands,” Kanaan said during a press conference from the parliament.
He stressed that the “new wage scale dilemma can no longer endure any delay.”
“Several years have passed and the Civil Defense is carrying out its tasks for the sake of the Lebanese people,” the lawmaker said, wondering “what the parliament is waiting for to make the volunteers full-time employees.”
“We are discussing ways to fund the new salary scale with the ministry of finance,” Kanaan pointed out.
He called for reforms to end corruption.
Earlier on Thursday, Civil Defense members briefly blocked the International highway in Chtaura.
On Wednesday, Civil Defense volunteers also held symbolic sit-ins in several Lebanese regions to protest the parliament's failure to endorse a proposal that improves their work conditions.
The draft-law suggests financing the Civil Defense's fund to solve the department's current financial crisis.
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