The salary increases and the first targeted retirement system

“The News” wrote: The Civil Service Council prepared a project that enters and adjusts the salaries of workers in the public sector and adjusts in the structure of the retirement system in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and with the World Bank, the European Union and the Organization for Development and Economic Cooperation (OECD), in addition to the authority assigned to the Council of Ministers (Sigma ». Although the project provides for workers in 2030 the recovery of 75% of their salaries in 2019, the retirement system is subject to structural amendments required by external parties.

The President of the Civil Service Council, Nisreen Mashamshi, refuses, in an interview with “Al -Akhbar”, to call a “new series of ranks and salaries” that “needs a new job description, in which responsibilities and tasks are determined, and it is built on objective and practical foundations”, but rather, according to its description “an objective increase on the salaries and wages of workers in the public sector, aimed at reaching regularity, and notifying the employee with safety and security, as well as reforming The conditions of exchange compensation for the wage and the contractors, which are counted on the basis of salary without increases.
These increases are linked to a period of five years that start in 2027, in addition to adjustments to exchange and retirement compensation linked to what is required by the World Bank.
The regularity of work in the public sector, as you see Meshmoushi, is not achieved by doubling the basis of the salary of workers in the public sector gradually 46 times. But it does not indicate that workers in the public sector will not obtain this matter for free, because the Lebanese government is not an exclusive partner in this project, but rather a number of other partners seem to see in it and request amendments that are appropriate to specific indicators by them.
So it will not be surprising that the retirement system is the first to target the expected “reforms”. Especially since the World Bank, in the days of the former Minister of Labor, Camille Buslimian, previously submitted a proposal to make radical amendments to the structure of this sector. It is striking that these amendments began to appear today in the form of an official project.
According to Meshmoushi, the project will reduce the pension from 85%of the last salary of the employee, to 70%, knowing that the World Bank proposed a reduction to 50%.
The President of the Civil Service Council suggested Nisreen Mashamshi to cancel 2,600 jobs that are no longer valid within the official job structure, as well as “random employment and strange names”. And the justifications for this matter “the absence of pillars of administrative reform, the most important of which is the job description, as when the employee is appointed, what is required of him is not known. This is now happening, as we appoint the first category employees, and do not have a job description for them. ”
Therefore, “the Civil Service Council distributed job fields, divided them into 22 fields and 135 functional families, and distributed jobs on the basis of them.” On the basis of this, “last week I sent a bill to the government to cancel these 2600 jobs, provided that workers in these jobs are transferred to occupy other jobs. Among the jobs to be canceled are: a phone warden, a first subscriber, a second cleared, a translator assistant, a workshop agent, an accountant assistant, a writer ». The broader goal of the project is to “download the jobs of the state 10 thousand jobs, out of 28 thousand”