The National Federation of Trade Unions and Employees in Lebanon called on the government to provide direct assistance to workers and the poor, especially as employers did not pay wages to their employees, in addition to arbitrary exchange for a period of months, a reservation of salaries in banks for some, and the money of poor people as well.
After the extension of the state of general mobilization in Lebanon to April 12, and after the aggravation of the living crisis, especially for people with limited incomes, and those working in the informal economy, including daily farmers, construction workers, drivers and other poor and migrant workers.
In a statement, the National Union also renewed its demand for the Ministry of Labor to “raise the voice in the Council of Ministers in order to protect workers’ rights and to issue decrees and legislation to cover the general mobilization period, as it happened during the civil war.”
The Union stressed the need for the social security fund to receive and pay medical bills for medicines in these difficult circumstances through direct payment and not through banks that hold the money.
The Union also called for holding a meeting of economic and trade union bodies from all sectors in order to impose the content of International Recommendation No. 205 on states of emergency and in order to put in place mechanisms for that, similar to all countries in the world that suffer as Lebanon in order to preserve the rights of workers and their livelihood.
The National Federation of Trade Unions asked all members of trade union councils and members of the General Council to participate in strengthening the process of popular steadfastness in the face of this pandemic, by participating with the bodies, associations and municipalities with which it works and in all regions by volunteering to serve workers, the poor and the Lebanese people.
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