Shura Council Approves Wage Hike, Conditions Amendments
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The Shura Council approved on Friday the cabinet’s controversial decision on wage hike that caused a series of protests amongst politicians, citizens and Syndicates.
The Council conditioned some modifications to the decision without interfering with the amount of increase on brackets.
Last week, the cabinet approved a wage proposal made by Prime Minister Najib Miqati, whereby the minimum wage increased by LL100,000 to LL600,000, salaries under LL1 million by 30% up to a LL200,000 increase, and salaries above LL1 million by a 20% increase up to LL275,000.
On Thursday, the Syndicate Coordination Committee staged a strike rejecting the cabinet’s decision, warning that the strike will be escalated gradually until the cabinet backs down on its wage boost decision.
Meanwhile, the General Labor Confederation has decided to stage a strike across Lebanon on December 27 to protest the cabinet wage boost as the Syndicate and the GLC failed to unite their stances over the matter.
In October, the Shura Council turned down the cabinet’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to LL700,000 and give workers earning less than LL1 million a LL200,000 raise while increasing the wages of employees earning between LL1 million and LL1.8 million a LL300,000 raise.
16 December 2011, 16:26
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Anyway in lebanon lately it has always been like this, business eating up employees , its a shame we still give some students or people 2 or 3 $ top max for example as waiters in restaurants, i live in Canada and the minimum wage per hour is 9.5 $, talking about the restaurants , its prices here are cheaper than lebanons and still the waiters and waitreesses are paid triple + tips. In lebanon , even en have tips are not obligatory, how do you want people to live and to survive? restaurants are making loads of money, and they dont even to pay taxes. I guess its eveeryone for themselves. Shame on this country , stilll letting people be employed as slaves with no rights if they get fired, this in not a country, its a zoo
17 December 2011, 06:25
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Lebanon is barely a country, but lets pretend. If you have highly sought after skills, you will find a good job, but if you dont, why should an employeer pay you more than he want to for the government to get involved with your pay is not right. The only way you become wealthy is buy working for your self. Now the problem in lebanon is the corruption people make more money stealing in the government than they being productive. my advice to lebanese is find a nitch skill that people with money want other wise immigate out. If you cant then that is to bad. But for the government to control wages is economic suicide, in canada mini wage differs from province to province. Same in the usa, in america mexicans will work for less than min wage. My advice for poor lebanese is to leave lebanon it is an evil place and the rich are not going to pay you a high wage because they want you to work as a slave for life. Plus lebanon is a tribal society. A good program can find work anyware.
