Civil servants' wages tripled for 2 months, transport allowance hiked from March
A ministerial committee on Monday agreed to grant civil servants financial incentives aimed at putting an end to a public sector strike that has paralyzed state administrations.
The committee also decided to revoke a salary hike that had been recently granted to judges in an exclusive manner.
“It has been agreed to ensure equality among all public sector employees without any discrimination,” caretaker Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram announced after the committee’s meeting.
“It has been agreed to approve a host of laws that would secure a large basket of revenues for the public treasury,” Bayram added.
He announced that accordingly civil servants will be granted two extra salaries for each of July and August, while hiking the daily transport allowance to LBP 95,000 with a retroactive effect as of last March.
The committee’s meeting was chaired by caretaker PM Najib Mikati and attended by a large number of caretaker ministers.
“We will try in today’s meeting to tackle new ideas with the hope to reach a solution that would be acceptable to everyone, but meeting the demands all at once is something impossible and would lead to a bigger collapse of the situations,” Mikati said during the meeting.
Source: Naharnet
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