cover image: 2024 The Labor Code in Lebanon: Social Security after the Crisis

2024 The Labor Code in Lebanon: Social Security after the Crisis

4 Jun 2024

that poverty rates ranged between a quarter between ANND and the Lebanese The so-called chronic "twin deficit" in the and a third of the population from the Observatory for Workers and Employees’ fiscal balance and the balance of payments mid-1990s until the outbreak of the crisis in Rights, it attempts to approach some Labor has turned into a sovereign debt crisis the fall of 2019. [...] seven out of eight ILO conventions, with the The same thing applies to the labor system exception of the convention relating to in Saudi Arabia and the labor laws in Egypt freedom of association and the effective and Jordan. [...] certification, through expressing its opinion In Lebanon, the Labor Code and Decree of the candidates through the criminal record • Regarding the government’s right to 7993 regulate the mechanisms to set union monitor union elections to ensure the and managing the electoral process through respect of laws and the principle of internal regulations, the method of holding supervision and control. [...] On the other hand, in indefinite-term contracts, either party is free • Regarding the government’s right to monitor union elections to ensure the to terminate the contract even after the respect of laws and the principle of amendments to Article 50 of the Labor Code freedom of choice and elections, the pursuant to Law 2/6/1975. [...] The in the event of a dispute over the election first is the principle of freedom of contract results, the case must be considered by and the second is the inadmissibility of the courts, not the government.
Pages
29
Published in
Lebanon