Conflict Incident Report

Parents at the French Embassy-affiliated school Grand Lycee Franco-Libanais called for a sit-in on campus for Tuesday to protest a teachers’ strike that saw students out of school for almost a month.

The teachers’ association declared an open strike Friday last week after the school administration broke a promise to reinstate a pay raise stipulated in the salary scale law endorsed by Parliament in 2017.

In December, teachers had received salary increase under Law 46, but it excluded the six-scale degrees also stipulated by the law. A dispute then arose in April after the school proposed to hike tuition to finance the pay raise, with the parents’ committee rejecting that budget. The school responded by revoking the teachers’ raise, prompting the strike.