According to the Lebanese News Agency, a number of protesting workers managed to get into the Ministry of Labor and demanded ‘the necessity of improving the conditions of all workers in the country’, rejecting what they called ‘the arbitrary expulsion of employees by their institutions’.
Lawyer and activist in the Lebanese popular movement Wassef Al-Haraka, described the entry process to the premises of the Ministry of Labor ‘as linked to several reasons, asince there are strategic ministries, including the Ministry of Labor, that must protect employees and protect the unemployed when they are dismissed, as well as prevent their dismissal mainly’.
‘The Ministry of Labor has neither fulfilled its role nore provided protection, and when we said that there is no trust in the government, we were aware of its incompetence. It has been proven that these ministries only play a certain role, which is the role of beeing a mask’, he added.
Al-Haraka also called on the Minister of Labor, Lamia Yamen, to ‘resign’, considering that ‘the ministry must provide guarantees that protect workers, including: preventing collective exchange, securing financial alternatives for those who have been expelled, providing employment alternatives, providing training, creating an independent fund to ensure wages sustaininbility, protecting the employed, and ensuring the continuity of people at work’.
AL-Haraka concluded that ‘We will complete the confrontation in all ministries in order to return work to institutions in their true form, and the Ministry of Labor should play its role, otherwise the unnecessary could become necessary’.
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