The League strike in lost time: the Lebanese woman is free to go to court

The strike by the executive body of the Association of Full-Time Professors of the Lebanese University for two consecutive days left mixed reactions among professors. Some supported the move now, that is, at the beginning of the school year, as one of the ways to reincorporate the rights of teachers on the agenda of the Council of Ministers, and because the open strike is one of the main pressure options to fix the files so that the hiring teachers are emptied and the entrance of the full-time teachers to the owners. And some of them did not count on the strike, in terms of timeliness and effectiveness, since most of the universities have not yet begun to study and teaching in the first semester will be remote. Likewise, the measure “occurred in the context of reaction and not action”, since the League expected, according to educational sources, the issuance of two entry decrees for the two ministers, Hamad Hassan and Lama Yammine, owners of the university to demand the entry of more than 50 professors who retired before the entry of the owners and were denied retirement pensions and health coverage, while “No precise data was collected on the files of these professors.” The sources They noted that “there were two stations that required action: the first was last year when they retired, and the second when retired professor Ali al-Muash and the non-Vasily Boogie hired professor died in the Corona pandemic.” Their sources expressed their fear of using the movement in the League elections that are just around the corner, while the university must not only address the rights of the people, but make it an issue. of public opinion as well as corruption, the judiciary and hospitalization, “The League and groups of teachers failed in this in the 2018 strike. And in the October 17 uprising,” especially because the sectarian balance and the Political disputes obstruct all the archives of the university.

Retired full-time employees will take the legal path to obtain their right to enter the owners by filing a lawsuit with the State Council. In this context, they reviewed the former minister, lawyer Ziad Baroud, who explained to Al-Akhbar that “you cannot appeal against the decrees of the two ministers, Hassan and Yameen, because they are deserved. Rather, the dispute may be linked to the administration in question, that is, the Ministry of Education, because the objective is not to overturn the decision issued against the two ministers. What is the benefit of joining the rest (full-time retirees and others full-time) ». He explained that “the problem is not with the two ministers, but with the authority, that is, the Council of Ministers, which decided that the owners enter them and deny the matter to the others, and even discretion has its origin, since that there is a general constitutional principle which is equality between people who have a similar legal status, and there is no indoor summer or winter. One, and custom doesn’t break a law. “
Baroud asserted that the entry of the incumbents after two years of sabbatical is a “decisive and inevitable”, as stated in article 37 of the University Organization Law: “… repeaters spend two years of training, after which their confirmation It will be based on the recommendation of the College Board and the approval of the College Board. If the two years have passed and they are not accredited They were transferred to the owners of secondary education or other state personnel ”, which means that“ they cannot remain, neither suspended nor absolute ”.
Al-Akhbar learned that there is a tendency for a group of other full-time employees (more than 1,100) to follow a similar legal path. Note that the Council of State has not yet issued the final decision regarding the ownership of some contractors excluded from the assignment file in 2014, despite the fact that the preparatory decision, the opinion of the scheduled consultant and the opinion of the government commissioner came out in his favor.
Former Minister of Labor and Agriculture, Trad Hamadeh, confirmed that he would present a case to the State Council that would restore his rights if the decree of the two ministers was approved. “This is not their position, but a restoration of a right that was stolen from him” when the Council of Ministers decided to include it in the owners like all ministers, but “for well-known political reasons, the former secretary general of the Council of Ministers , the late Suhail Bouji and former Prime Minister Najib Mikati did not prepare the decision to be published in the Official Gazette after she resigned from the government, knowing that the decision will take effect after a month ”. Hamadeh recalled that he had been on an hourly contract for 17 years and was not full-time, and was discharged after returning to college and the owners entered into retirement.

Baroud: The entrance of the angel after two years of commission is decisive and inevitable

As for the head of the Lebanese Food Safety Authority, Elie Awad, who added his name to the names of the two ministers, his decree was issued to enter the owners in the Official Gazette on May 21, 2019, after Prime Minister Saad Hariri, through the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, will request the university presidency to include him in the owners to be placed outside and assume an official task, that is, the presidency. The commission, “I am not guilty of that,” he said.
Awad had joined the sit-in the League had held yesterday. Bashar Ismail hinted, on behalf of the university’s contractors, the open strike: “We will not accept that we enter a new year of oppression. We have served our mandatory sentence after 7 years have passed since the last file was cleared.”
For his part, the president of the League Executive Committee, Youssef Daher, said that the strike brought university problems back to the cabinet table, especially since the university staff now includes only 15 percent of the professors, while it should include at least 80 percent of them.

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