The #wage_scale will save the economy, not impede it
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Public sector workers protest for the wage scale to be approved by the Lebanese parliament on April 29, 2014. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Public sector workers protest for the wage scale to be approved by the Lebanese parliament on April 29, 2014. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
The assault on the proposed wage scale – which includes wage increases for public sector employees – continues. Instead of seizing the opportunity to launch serious discussions based on real arguments and facts, and away from the controversy and the clamor about the wage scale and its implications, we have had a torrent of hyperbolic warnings that the pay hike could lead to a Greek-style economic collapse, or even an economic version of the May 7 conflict of (...)
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