Lebanon’s minimum wage to be potentially raised to LL28 million in first phase

Lebanon’s minimum wage to be potentially raised to LL28 million in first phase

BEIRUT — A meeting was held on Wednesday between Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar and the Index committee — the body tasked with reviewing wage policy and made up of union representatives and...

The Government proposed a macroeconomic mechanism to activate subsidies to SMEs in view of the possible increase in the minimum wage.

In his office in the Ministry, the Minister of Labour, Mohamed Haider, chaired today a meeting of the indicator committee devoted to the completion of research on the treatment of salaries of private sector workers. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the economic bodies, the former Minister of Economic Affairs, Mohamed Shaker, Director-General of the National Social Security Fund, Dr. Mohamed Karki, Director-General of Central Statistic…