The Joint Parliamentary Committees approved late on Friday the new wage scale and referred it to the parliament for a vote

The Joint Parliamentary Committees approved late on Friday the new wage scale and referred it to the parliament for a vote.

“The joint parliamentary committees completed the examination of the new wage scale draft and the proposal about funding it, and will submit a report to the parliament,” the state-run National News Agency said.

Then, adopting the law will depend on the approval of the legislature, the NNA added, revealing that legislators might study the draft during a Tuesday session.

The committees discussed thoroughly the contentious draft's articles, but left some for a parliamentary plenary session, according to naharnet.

"We approved the articles related to the pay raise of employees and contractors,” head of the Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan revealed after the joint parliamentary committees' evening session. “We agreed on some articles, and we had disagreements on others,” Kanaan said.

During the evening talks, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil stressed that funding the new wage scale “must not be done at the expense of underprivileged and the poor segments of society, if we were really looking to secure justice and balance in the country.”