Employees are no longer required to provide a no objection certificate in order to change jobs but in tandem with law 18 of 2020.
The law aims at preventing and combatting discrimination and hate speech. Specifically, it aims at combatting all forms of expression that are disseminated or encouraged that justify discrimination, as well as those involving expressions of contempt, insult, hostility, hatred or violence directed at a person or group of persons based on gender or ethnicity, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin, language, geographic affiliation, disability or health status.
Due to the ongoing health condition the country is going through, this Memo extends the work of Memo 1/30 of 24/04/2020 which is related to the Lab tests that are required to complete the transactions of foreign employees, that were taken in private labs and hospitals, till the date of 31/12/2020.
In order to ensure the proper functioning work, the heads of the units concerned with the work of foreigners are requested to ask concerned parties, when submitting a request for a review of a previously rejected transaction, to explain the request and to include the documents confirming the rejection, including an opinion by the head of the department or the competent authority with the suggestion of approval or lack thereof and the reasons justifying that before submitting it to the director and the minister.
The Ministerial Committee, in its meeting on 31 March 2020, agreed on a strategy in the return of the Lebanese diaspora. The return of the diaspora should be subject to the conditions set by the Ministerial Council with the Minister of Health, and with respect to the mechanism adopted within the government strategy.