Break For Wage Hike May be next week

 

BEIRUT: A breakthrough in the long-running crisis over public workers’ salaries is expected next week, a ministerial source revealed .

“We are close to an agreement on holding a Parliament session on July 17 to pass laws adopting the new salary scale and government expenditures,” the source said.

The ministerial source spoke after Cabinet failed Thursday to resolve the thorny issues of the Lebanese University’s contract professors and extra-budgetary spending.

Speaking following a six-hour session chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail, Information Minister Ramzi Joreige said the issue of employing LU’s contract professors as full timers was discussed at length by the Cabinet, but it was decided to postpone it until next week’s session amid lingering differences among ministers.............more