Hours after the National Oil Corporation announced an increase in the daily production of crude oil by more than one million barrels, social media saw a large number of workers in the sector calling on the government and the Ministry of Finance to implement the decision to increase the salaries of workers in the oil sector by 67% issued in October of 2013.
A member of the media office of the General Petroleum Syndicate, Louay Daoud, told 218News Saturday that the Syndicate sees the occasion of “one million barrels” as an opportunity to renew its demands for the Ministry of Finance and the Presidential Council for the necessity of implementing the decision to increase salaries for the benefit of sector employees who made a great achievement to raise production after a 9-year delay and after they made great efforts to overcome technical difficulties amid the risk of the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic.
Daoud indicated that the Syndicate has communicated with all parties over the past months, but to no avail, explaining that some users of the oil sector have not received their salaries for 5 months due to the delay in disbursing the budgets allocated to the sector by the Presidential Council, stressing the need to expedite the disbursement of all allocations to the oil corporation in order for it to strengthen activity of companies, developing their infrastructure, and providing the opportunity for oil companies to undertake health insurance contracts and initiate the implementation of benefits for workers in ports, desert and marine fields.
