Kanaan to Meet SCC Tuesday ahead of Joint Parliamentary Committees Session on Wage Scale

Speaker Nabih Berri tasked on Thursday head of the Finance and Budget Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan with chairing next week's joint parliamentary committees meeting, reported the National News Agency.

The meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, will tackle the new wage scale draft-law.

Ahead of the session, the lawmaker will hold talks with the Syndicate Coordination Committee on Tuesday to address their demands, added NNA.

Berri had held talks on Wednesday with Education Minister Elias Bou Saab and the SCC on the wage hike.

The SCC is a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees that has in recent years spearheaded protests aimed at approving a new wage scale.

After postponing several sessions on the controversial issue, the parliament in October returned a draft scale to the joint parliamentary committees for further discussions.

However, the new wage scale has not been approved until the moment due to political differences

M.T.