New statement.. What did the General Labor Department announce about the monthly and daily minimum wages?

He affirmed his “complete refusal to cancel Article Two of the draft decree prepared by the Ministry of Labor in accordance with the rules and in line with previous decrees issued in this regard and approved by the State Shura Council in order to achieve justice and job hierarchy between employees and workers in the private sector, public institutions, independent departments and government hospitals.”

He explained, “The Union is in the process of preparing a detailed study to clarify the legal and administrative flaws in the cancellation of this article, in preparation for the State Shura Council’s review of the form and content of the cancellation to put matters in their correct framework.”

He stressed “the insistence that the maximum earning subject to contributions for the sickness and maternity branch be 90 million liras, i.e. five times the official minimum monthly wage, and the rejection of the unilateral amendment issued apart from a necessary dialogue between the parties concerned, led by the General Labor Union and the National Social Security Fund and away from Terminating the Board of Directors and in line with what is required to raise the ceilings for medical and hospitalization services in the sickness and maternity branch.”

He asked “Minister of Labor in the caretaker government, Mustafa Bayram, to cling to a position supportive of the rights of the 450,000 workers affiliated with the National Social Security Fund through a firm, humanitarian and social labor union stance in which he clarifies what happened in the Council of Ministers and confirms the decree that has received the approval of the State Shura Council and its readiness.” “To keep up with the correction that leads to the desired result.”

“Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for immediate initiative to correct these defects, in order to establish the principle of justice and equality between employees and workers in the private sector, and to support the National Social Security Fund, which provides health care for more than a third of the Lebanese people.”

He indicated that he “will continue his escalatory steps, leading to a sit-in and strike if he does not get the required response to provide relief to the working class in this difficult economic stage that Lebanon is experiencing.”