Electricite du Liban contract workers officially announced on Friday the end of their three-month strike and the resumption of work at the company after striking a deal with the government.

Electricite du Liban contract workers officially announced on Friday the end of their three-month strike and the resumption of work at the company after striking a deal with the government, local Naharnet news website reported.

“We will end our strike and the committee will continue to hold meetings to follow up the implementation of the deal,” Lebnan Makhoul, a member of the EDL contract workers committee, told reporters during a press conference at the General Labor Confederation headquarters.

For his part, head of GLC Ghassan Ghosn said that “we will immediately implement the agreement and end the sit-in at EDL's headquarters in Mar Mikhael in Beirut.”

He cited the 5-point agreement between the contract workers and the government that includes the company’s payment of the contract workers salaries till the month of July, the full time employment of some contract workers by sitting for a closed exam as called for by a draft law approved by the parliament, according to the vacancies at EDL, giving those who don’t qualify to become permanent employees the financial compensations in exchange for their 10 or 20 years of service at the company and transferring the rest to private-service providers, forming a committee from AMAL movement, Hezbollah and al-Marada movement to modify the draft law which was approved by the parliament.

TV footage showed several workers opening the main gate and launching fireworks and firecrackers at EDL’s headquarters in Beirut marking the end of the contract workers’ strike.

The workers also removed the tent that they erected inside the company’s premises.

EDL hourly-wage employees have been at odds with Energy Minister Gebran Bassil and the EDL company over improvements to their work conditions and have called for their appointment as permanent staff.

They have been holding sit-ins at the company’s headquarters in Beirut’s Corniche al-Nahr calling for their demands to be met.

The contract workers have been demanding the company to pay them their June and July.