Lebanon's Association of Public Administration Employees on Monday (September 25th) called for an open-ended strike starting Tuesday in all state institutions to press authorities not to delay a wage increase, Naharnet reported.
The association also called for a sit-in Tuesday in Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square.
In a statement, the body said the strike will continue until the payment of the salaries according to the new schedules.
Public employees and private and public school teachers were already observing a strike across Lebanon on Monday to press for the same demands.
Information Minister Melhem Riachi on Sunday announced that the government was inclined to suspend the wage hike to carry out a financial evaluation, after the Constitutional Council revoked a tax law that had been approved to fund the new salary scale.
The Constitutional Council has revoked a tax law aimed at funding the wage scale in its entirety after 10 lawmakers filed an appeal against it.
Authorities had argued that the new taxes are necessary to fund the new wage scale, but opponents of such a move have called for finding new revenues through putting an end to corruption and the waste of public money.
