Berri slams wage disparity between public sector employees

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday that the salary disparity between the different categories of public sector employees would lead to a greater collapse and will have social and economic repercussions.

Berri called for rectifying the salaries' issue, even if it requires to immediately freeze the decision "before it is too late."

The Speaker's statement comes after Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh reportedly issued a decision to increase the judges' salaries. Some MPs and the caretaker minister of Labor considered the decision to be "selective," as other public sector employees have been protesting for salary adjustments.