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Othman Abdel-Jalil to our source: « We reviewed the unified salary scale with the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, and it was referred to the Head of the Libyan Government for approval and submission to Parliament »

The official spokesman for the Libyan government, Othman Abdel-Jalil, told our source that they, in the government, reviewed the unified salary scale for state employees with the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, and then it was referred to the Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, for approval and submission to Parliament.

The Minister of Planning and Finance of the Libyan government, Osama Hammad, had referred to the Head of the Libyan government the final proposal for the unified salary scale referred by the head of the National Planning Council, detailed according to job groups and performance rates, to refer it to the House of Representatives for study and approval.

The referral of the proposal came from the National Planning Council after the formation of a committee that included an elite group of consultants and experts from the Council, the Central Bank of Libya and the Ministry of Finance, in addition to the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives to develop a unified salary schedule for all sectors of the state.

The Ministry of Work and Rehabilitation is discussing with the Investment and Privatization Authority, the organization of the labor market and the recruitment of expatriate workers for local and international investment companies

The Adviser to the Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation in the of National Unity Government, Al-Saih Abu Derbala, met today, Wednesday, with the General Director of the General Authority for Investment and Privatization Affairs, Abdul Aziz Al-Shawesh.

The meeting dealt with discussing the organization of the labor market and the recruitment of expatriate workers for local and international investment companies, as well as training and qualifying job seekers and the authority’s employees. It was also agreed to continue communication until these meetings are translated into signing a memorandum of cooperation as soon as possible.

The Minister of Planning discusses with the European Union delegation for the « Support for Libya » project to agree to sign a memorandum of understanding early next week

The Minister of Planning in charge of running the ministry, Mohammed Youssef Al-Zaidani, met today, Wednesday, with an official delegation from the European Union delegation for the project « Support for Libya », headed by the project team manager, Laila Habashi, in the presence of the Chairman of the Directors Board of the Statistics and Census Authority and the Director of the Technical Cooperation Office.

The project aims to raise and support the capabilities of the Statistics and Census Authority in the population census project that has been suspended since 2006. It was also agreed that a memorandum of understanding would be signed in this regard early next week.

Dbeibeh allocates 4 million dinars for each municipality and gives cars to all municipal mayors and their agents

The head of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, announced today, Wednesday, the allocation of 4 million dinars to each municipality to run its work, noting that 500 million dinars were allocated last year to municipalities, and 2.5 billion dinars were allocated for development.

Dbeibeh also revealed during his meeting with the mayors of the municipalities of Libya that permission had been given to the Minister of Local Government to conduct a public and a limited bidding to purchase cars for the head and members of municipal councils, in addition to giving permission to purchase service cars for each municipality.

Sanalla reviews the problems facing the National Petroleum Constructions Company due to the delay in disbursing the budget

The Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, met today, Wednesday, with the Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Petroleum Constructions Company, Khairallah Salah, in order to review the general activity of the company, and to discuss the problems and obstacles facing its work, and ways to overcome and address them.

Khairallah Salah briefed the Corporation’s Board Chairman on the challenges and obstacles facing the company due to the disruption of budgets, and their impact on achieving its goals, in addition to the difficult conditions faced by the company’s employees at all levels.

Sanalla also renewed the Corporation’s unlimited support for the National Petroleum Constructions Company and all sector companies, and its continuous endeavor and keenness to remove all obstacles in order to ensure the stability of the sector, and the continuation and increase of oil production.

Al-Abed participates in the World Government Summit in Dubai and declares about Libya’s relationship with the UAE

The Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation Ali Al-Abed Al-Rida participated in the World Summit of Governments held in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai. In the evening session, the Arab Government Administration Forum was launched as part of the summit’s activities, with the participation of the Arab Ministers of Labor and Administrative Development, and in the presence of Dr. Nasser Al-Qahtani, General Director of the Arab Labor Organization, and UAE Minister of Government Development Ohud Al-Rumi.

The event dealt with a discussion of the most important outcomes of the Arab Government Administration Status Report and the proposal of the Arab Network for Governmental Development initiative.

The Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation, Ali Al-Abed, told the Emirates News Agency that « The relations between the UAE and Libya are a strong historical and fraternal relationship, while expressing his aspiration to benefit from the Emirati experience in the field of labor market development. »

He stated that the World Government Summit lays the foundations for creating the future of the world by looking at life with technology and reviewing the challenges facing work patterns and career opportunities that are witnessing great development as a result of technological development. He pointed out that the world will witness in the near future an increase in job opportunities related to the digital economy, technology and blockchain, which requires an urgent change in the means of education and the provision of labor market requirements.

The National Planning Council hands over to Al-Hibri and his accompanying team the unified salary law proposal

The Chairman of the National Planning Council Miftah Harir held a meeting with the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Libya Ali Al-Hibri, the former Minister of Finance in the Interim Government, Maraj Ghaith and the economist at the Central Bank of Libya Sanad Al-Hassi and the Director of the Presidential Affairs Department of the Council Ashraf Al-Kuraimi.

The meeting dealt with the final proposal for the unified salary law for public sector workers for review and opinion.

The meeting also discussed a set of policies accompanying the implementation of the law, to ensure the reduction of spending and the enhancement of revenues, which will contribute to achieving the desired goals in a way that ensures the establishment of social justice, and the achievement of equality among citizens.

It is noteworthy that a number of Central Bank of Libya experts participated in preparing this law.

Dbeibeh stresses the need for the management of the Investment Corporation to continue to protect its assets in Belgium

The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Libyan Investment Corporation, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, met today, Tuesday, with the Chairman and Executive Director of the Libyan Investment Corporation, Ali Mahmoud.

Ali Mahmoud gave the Prime Minister a briefing on some issues related to the progress of investments abroad, including the latest developments on the measures taken to protect the assets of the Libyan Investment Authority abroad.

For his part, the Prime Minister of the National Unity Government praised during the meeting the need to continue the efforts made by the Corporation’s management to protect its assets in Belgium to ensure the protection and preservation of these assets.

Aoun: « The sale of the share of the American Hess company has not yet taken place and Sanalla sold the share of Marathon company in violation of the law »

The Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, told Flusna program yesterday, Monday, that the head of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, had sold the share of the Marathon Oil company, based on a letter from the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, and the sale was illegal.

Aoun added that the Oil Ministry had contacted Sanalla to find out the details of the accumulated debts on the oil sector, and he did not respond, indicating that the Oil Ministry had pressured Sanalla to recover the money arrears with foreign companies since October 2020, until it was collecting 10 billion and 900 million dinars in the form of bonds in the name of the Ministry of Oil.

The Minister of Oil also indicated that the failure to open the wells with their full production by the National Oil Corporation will waste large quantities of crude oil and we will not be able to extract it due to the non-technical mechanism that is being used now, indicating that « us, the Ministry, have written to Sanallah to give us details about the production of each oil well and he answered with information that is not related to the topic ».

Mohamed Aoun revealed that the sale of the American Hess company has not yet taken place, based on several memos submitted to the concerned authorities, so the Administrative Control Authority and the Audit Bureau submitted a request to the Council of Ministers to stop this deal.

Sanalla discusses with the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives the negative effects resulting from the delay in approving the budget for National Oil Corporation

The Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, discussed with the Chairman of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Omar Tantoush and a member of the committee, Abdul-Moneim Balkour, in a meeting today, Tuesday at the Corporation’s headquarters in Tripoli, the general budget of the sector, the exchange items and the negative effects resulting from the delay in approving the budget for the National Oil Corporation.

Sanalla explained that the oil sector is suffering as a result of budget delays, and there are some workers who have not received their salaries for five months, despite the fact that the Corporation transferred 26 billion dollars in the last period to state coffers, but it did not obtain the budgets, and the conditions are very bad, adding that the oil sector is suffering from the delay in maintenance operations in oil fields and ports, which has a negative impact on the process of increasing production, and the increasing demand for diesel to generate power stations requires large sums of money.

For his part, the head of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Omar Tantoush, stressed that the committee is striving to solve the problem regarding the budget, given that the National Oil Corporation is responsible for the country’s only source of income and must be supported to continue and develop production operations, and provide all means for that.