REPORT: EDL contract workers demonstrate in Corniche el-Naher, one self immolates

 
Contract workers at Electricite Du Liban (EDL) held a demonstration on Monday at the entrance of the electricity institution in Corniche el-Nahr and burned waste containers to protest against the formula of their full time employment draft law.              

In this regard, one of the EDL workers set himself ablaze and was immediately rushed to the Geitawi hospital for treatment.                             

Member of the EDL contract workers follow up committee Bilal Bajouk told LBCI that workers are protesting against the urgent draft law which was scheduled on today’s Parliament’s General Authority session without their agreement.        

This as Change and Reform Bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan also told LBCI during Nharkom Said that all parliamentary blocs participated in the draft law pertaining to the EDL contract workers, adding that these blocs agreed during various meetings on the necessity of paying compensations and holding qualification exams.

EDL contract workers have been protesting for months calling on the government to employ them as full-time staff and to pay their salaries.            

Their protests have included shutting the gates of EDL headquarters in Beirut and disrupting normal work at the state-run company.