Jarrah told LBCI’s Nharkom Said that his party did not receive any response regarding the wage hike, considering that the response will be negative since discussions between Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun and Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil from one side, and Education Minister Elias Bou Saab and the Union Coordinating Committee from another side, did not yield fruitful results.
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.
Outgoing 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 to parliament.