The Contracting Committee for Public Basic Education in Lebanon issued the following statement:
It is important for the committee to assure the main contractors that it participated today in the meeting called by the Minister of Education to discuss the decision to return to school on January 10, 2022. The head of the committee said in the course of the conversation: that the contractors are not among their hobbies to disrupt, strike and close schools, but the aggravation of the economic and financial situation and the failure to implement the promises that the minister committed to implementing three months ago, until today, and that the whole problem falls on the responsibility of the Ministry of Education from the delay in Scheduling the $90 file, the monthly payment, the implementation of the full contract, the signing of the transfer schedules for the contractors and the helper, the delay in paying the summer school entitlements, the failure to sign a decree to raise the hourly wage, and giving the contractors the full contract for the current year.
After presenting all these points without obtaining explicit and transparent answers from the minister and educational officials in the ministry, the committee was informed through its chairman Hussein Saad that they will not return to schools unless promises are implemented and when these promises become a reality.
The committee also warns of any threat to the contractors who have spent their lives in order to raise the status of public schools, and that any decision that threatens their contracts will be answered by appropriate means in a timely manner.
The statement concluded that there is no return to schools on January 10, 2022, and no one can bring teachers back by force, intimidation and threats.
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