LEBANON— Oger company management decided to expel 69 out of 100 workers for economic reasons giving them notice until end of this month.
Currently, the unemployment rate in Lebanon stands at 25% of the workforce.
The company offered to the expelled employees arbitrarily to give them compensation equal to four months salaries, and one month salary for each year of service in addition to the insurance compensation. In return the majority of workers rejected this compensation, considering it as unfair end for their years of work.
However, the company told them, resort to the judicial authority and you will lose. If you have a lawyer, we have ten, asking them to accept the offer, and to sign a written resignation.
Lawyer Majed Fayad said the offer meets, to some extent, what can be described as a legal dispute as long the maximum compensation, in these cases of unfair expelling of employees, has reached 12 months.
For the disputes about the issues of the bonuses and the other suffixes to the wages, they are subject to the negotiations, he added.
According to the lawyer, the company notification to the employees that it is facing financial problems make it unable to keep their jobs is not enough to be compatible with the Article 50 of the Lebanese Labour Law, as long the company has breached the condition to notify the Ministry of Labour.
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