Following the meeting, Bou Saab said that Berri requested the concerned officials to call for a joint parliamentary committees meeting on Tuesday to address the salary hike.
“We are trying our utmost to address the new wage scale issue,” Bou Saab said.
Moreover, Bou Saab said that Berri had requested that he discuss this issue with head of the Future bloc MP Fouad Saniora, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, and Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan.
The UCC is a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees that has in recent years led protests aimed at approving a new pay scale.
After postponing several sessions on the debated issue, the Parliament in October returned a draft scale to the joint parliamentary committees for further discussions. However, the new pay scale has not been approved until the moment due to political differences