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Lebanon IM predicts Shura Council will reject the wage hikes

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Lebanon Information Minister Walid Daouq told LBC TV on Saturday that he predicts that the State Shura Council “will reject” the wage hikes recently adopted by the cabinet .

Daouq expressed concern that the process for resolving the controversial wage issue “will go back to square one ” .

The cabinet voted on Wednesday to increase the minimum monthly wage from 500,000 LL to 868, 000 LL or about 74 %. The increase was based on a proposal presented by Minister of Labor Charbel Nahhas who represents the Free and Patriotic Movement (FPM) in the cabinet

Daouq said following the meeting last Wednesday that the ministers also agreed to increase the daily minimum wage to 33,000 LL and introduce a minimum monthly transportation allowance of 268,000 LL.

Daouq also said that salaries less than LL1.5 million will be increased by 18 percent while salaries between LL1.5 million and LL2.5 million will be increased by 10 percent. Wages above LL2.5 million will million will receive a flat increase of LL370,000

The new wages are retroactive to December 1, 2011.

FPM declared victory following the approval of the wage hike by the cabinet.

Many fear that the new wage increase would be quickly offset by inflation.

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2 responses to “Lebanon IM predicts Shura Council will reject the wage hikes”

  1. josephphdman Avatar
    josephphdman

    this wage hike is way too high , its almost 70% of the lebanonese gdp , which will rake lebanon the highest minimum wage gdp ratio in the world !!!!!!,since 1 milion syrian work in lebanon ,and most of them work for minimum wage they are the only beneficiary from this increase ; therefore another consipiracy by the syrian regeme against lebanon to rob the country wealth and destroy its economy ,  now under sanctions and economic pressure the regeme is looking for any way to steal more money from lebanon , with those syrian 1milion labor the rgeme knows that this money they bring it home to syria , that is why they are using this  lebaneese cabinet which is a syrian regeme puppet to do there dirty work and rob and steal and destroy lebanon , like they have done for 50 years . the lebaneese people should demand the resignation of this cabinet , this governement is nothing but a syrian tool and conspirator against the lebaneese people and the lebaneeese state  .

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    Anonymous

    this wage hike is way too high , its almost 70% of the lebanon gdp , which will rake lebanon the highest minimum wage gdp ratio in the world !!!!!!,since 1 milion syrian work in lebanon ,and most of them work for minimum wage they are the only beneficiary from this increase ; therefore another consipiracy by the syrian regeme against lebanon to rob the country wealth and destroy its economy ,  now under sanctions and economic pressure the regeme is looking for any way to steal more money from lebanon , with those syrian 1milion labor the rgeme knows that this money they bring it home to syria , that is why they are using this  lebaneese cabinet which is a syrian regeme puppet to do there dirty work and rob and steal and destroy lebanon , like they have done for 50 years . the lebaneese people should demand the resignation of this cabinet , this governement is nothing but a syrian tool and conspirator against the lebaneese people and the lebaneeese state  .

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