UCC head Hanna Gharib to LBCI: Pay scale ensures the rights of a third of the Lebanese people

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16-05-2014 | 04:00
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UCC head Hanna Gharib to LBCI: Pay scale ensures the rights of a third of the Lebanese people
Head of the Union Coordination Committee Hanna Gharib said on Friday that all Lebanese leaders are backing the demands of the UCC "according to their own political interests."

Gharib's comments were made during LBCI's Nharkom Said TV show in which he stressed that the pay scale ensures the rights of about one million citizens who form one third of  the Lebanese people.

He also rejected to fund the pay scale at the expense of the poor and imposing additional taxes on the Lebanese people.
The UCC held a demonstration Wednesday to exert pressure on Parliament to pass the series of ranks and salaries draft law.

Later on Wednesday, the Lebanese lawmakers failed to endorse the wage scale for lack of agreement over controversial items, and deferred discussions till after May 25, the constitutional deadline to elect a new head of state.

In the event of a power vacuum, the parliament can no longer legislate, further exacerbating the situation.

The UCC resumed its movements a couple of weeks ago calling on the authorities to pass the pay scale, which stipulates a wage hike.

The decision to revive movements came as a result of the failure of the Joint Parliamentary Committees to resolve the dispute on the Value Added Tax in a proposal aimed at securing the funds for the salary scale that was approved by former Prime Minister Najib Mikati's cabinet.

Former PM Mikati's cabinet endorsed the new salary scale for public employees in 2012, ending a long dispute that had triggered several sit-ins and strikes held by the UCC.

President Michel Sleiman signed the decree mid-June 2013 and it was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committees for further examination, however the law was never passed.

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