Energy Minister Jebran Bassil held on Monday the Christian
Ministers and MPs responsible for the sectarian imbalance in Electricite du
Liban if the contract workers’ full-time employment was approved by the
parliament.
According to An Nahar newspaper, Bassil pointed out that around 80
percent of the contract workers belong to non-Christian sects and most of them
support Speaker Nabih Berri, who is a Shiite.
In June, the parliamentary joint committees tasked with resolving
the EDL contract workers’ crisis agreed to include all of them in a selection
process for permanent employment.
For his part, Berri told As Safir newspaper that the right to
contest the approval of EDL’s contract workers’ full-time employment is
“permitted.”
“The constitutional council is the authority that will have the
final word regarding the issue.”
A ministerial source expected the parliament to approve the draft
law of the workers’ full time employment.
“The full-time employment is conditioned by the exam that Bassil
already approved, the difference is that he suggested to permanently approve
the employment of 700 employee,” the source told al-Liwaa newspaper.
Bassil has previously proposed to allow 700 contract workers to
stand for an official exam, out of some 2,500 employees, while the rest would
become employees at private companies under a three-month probation period as
the company can’t contain all of the employees.
Head of the parliamentary energy committee MP Mohammed Qabbani
told the daily that the decision taken by the joint parliamentary committees is
to “facilitate the matter and not to torment” anyone.
He predicted that around 1,200 employees would be permanently
employed out of 1,700 contract workers.
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