Law on setting the minimum wages and salaries and the cost-of-living increase rates in the public and private sectors, and amending allowances and compensations

Type

Law

Number

13

Date of the text

20/04/1988

Official Gazette

published in 1988

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

4

What it provides

This law empowers the prime minister and the finance and labour ministers, by joint decision, to set the minimum wage and cost-of-living increase rate in the public and private sectors, and it revises the pay scales of civil servants, judges, military personnel, retirees and contract workers in the public sector.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 56/1988 of 09/08/1988, articles 2

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1988. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.