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The ministerial committee in charge of dealing with the repercussions of the financial crisis on the functioning of the public sector announced a new social assistance payment, equivalent to a full salary, for all civil servants, who have been on an open-ended strike since mid-June. The employees, who are still paid in lira, have been protesting the heavy deterioration of their working conditions, demanding to have their salaries adjusted to the country’s rampant inflation. The ongoing strike has crippled everyday life in Lebanon. Caretaker Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram said that the ministers issued an exceptional decree to give the new social assistance payments beginning from July. Bayram did not specify for how long the assistance would be provided. Bayram specified that this decision is “conditional on the presence of civil servants in the premises, at least two days a week, in order to meet the needs of citizens and ensure revenue to the Treasury,” adding that “this solution is temporary until the draft budget of the current year is adopted.”

مرسوم 9718

إعطاء مساعدة اجتماعية مؤقتة لجميع العاملين في القطاع العام مهما كانت مسمياتهم الوظيفية والمتقاعدين الذين يستفيدون من معاش تقاعد وإعطاء وزارة المالية سلفة خزينة من أجل تمكينها سداد هذه المساعدة