Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi received a memo form Head of the General National Federation of Trade Union of Workers and Employees in Lebanon Castro Abdallah, which stressed the need to reconsider the minimum wage and have it raised to 1 Milllion, 200 thousand L.L. a month - transportation allowances and education grants to be added-.
The Union emphasized its rejection to any form of security privatization, demanding the state to fulfill its duties forcing employers to pay off arrears.