Hamza Mansour, the coordinator of the Contractors' Movement, affirmed that "surveys conducted among the contractors on their social media platforms have confirmed their rejection of holding the official exams this year unless the Minister of Education practically and promptly fulfills his promises regarding the following matters: 1- A swift approval before the official exams to increase the hourly wage significantly. 2- Issuing a ministerial decree to pay a productivity allowance for the summer months. 3- Fully paying the rights of the contracted teachers who were displaced from the border strip. 4- Paying the dollar incentives owed by the ministry and UNICEF for the second round of official exams, which UNICEF suspended under the pretext of forgery of schedules and the inclusion of names, as well as for doubling the working hours of many teachers by some officials responsible for the official exams.
Mansour emphasized that the majority of the contractors and the permanent staff have decided not to participate in the official exams this year, whether in monitoring or correcting, if those rights are not granted, especially the incentives for the second round which have not yet been paid." He questioned, "How can a teacher who will incur at least 500,000 LBP for transportation to the exam center each day go for monitoring while the Ministry of Education offers him only 300,000 LBP? And how can someone who spends six hours on correction work for only 1.5 million LBP?"
