How many mothers are to be fired before the parliamentarians reconvene? || Newspapers (Arabic)

Al-Akhbar newspaper published a report about Shireen, a woman who was fired from her job, two weeks before her maternity leave expired. Her boss did not wait for her to resume work, as an employee at the media company in which she used to work in, called to inform her coldly that the program’s manager decided to fire her since her substitute receives a lower salary and spends more hours at work. Al-Akhbar, threw the responsibility for Shireen’s unfair dismissal on the Lebanese law keepers and particularly the parliamentarians since the current labor regulations clearly state that “It is forbidden for a woman to get fired or even get a warning during her maternity leave” while politicians are blocking the endorsement of new pro-women labor legislations in Parliament. The new amendments to decrees numbered 28 and 29 of labor law and the decree numbered 38 of the enactment decree number 112, issued on 12th June 1959 (Employees Regulations), extend the maternity leave from 7 to 10 weeks and reinforce that firing an employee during this leave is prohibited. “Al-Akhbar” concluded that these amendments are still in the drawers and may stay long unless the political parties currently boycotting the sessions of the parliament retract their political stand.
Source: Al-Akhbar 19 November 2012