The Lebanese Council of State (administrative jurisdiction) issued a decision on 14 October 2020 adopting the implementation of two decisions issued by the Minister of Labour of the interim government, Lamia Yammine Douaihy. The first decision concerns the unified contract of employment for domestic workers and the second relates to the rate of wage deduction as an advantage in kind. These cancellations were decided following a legal action launched by the union of the owners of recruitment offices of domestic workers who claimed to have suffered significant damage caused by the decisions of the Minister of Labour of the government interim.
Commenting on the cancellations, the Executive Director of ‘Legal Agenda’ said in a statement to ‘Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that the Council of State does not justify its decisions on the suspension of the execution and that this initial approval of the Union’s complaint clearly indicates that the Council intends to definitively validate the complaint.
In this context, he stressed that instead of supporting and protecting the most vulnerable party, the State and its mechanisms have chosen to give more power and attributes to the most advantaged party thus strengthening the practice of trafficking in human beings. The Executive Director of ‘Legal Agenda’ said that the Council stopped at the damage caused to recruitment offices by the decisions of the Ministry of Labour without taking into account the crimes to which the unified contract terminates.
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