BEIRUT: EDL contract workers Friday warned electricity subscribers, particularly large businesses, against paying their bills without verifying their authenticity, after the state-run company started printing them outside the headquarters.
"We ask citizens and especially the owners of large touristic, industrial and commercial companies to refer to [Electricte du Liban] before paying any bill that might be issued by EDL," the Follow-up Committee for Contract Workers and Bill Collectors said in a statement after a meeting.
"This is because the printing has not been performed inside the headquarters, which makes the bills subject to counterfeiting."
The workers condemned the "reckless decisions" of EDL to open new facilities outside the Beirut headquarters and issue bills amid a part-time workers' strike.
They also announced that they would end all maintenance work across Lebanon construction, including at power stations.
"The committee announces that it does not abide by the orders of anyone or any side, and that it is mature enough to make its appropriate, wise decisions concerning its workers," the statement said.
EDL’s contract workers have been on strike and camping out at the company’s headquarters for three months to demand full-time employment. They have been employed by three private service providers since 2012, and the companies’ contracts will end in 2016.
The strike started after EDL announced it would only employ 897 of the nearly 2,000 contract workers.
“The committee announces that next week, it will be making shocking and bold decisions that will surprise everyone, including the administration, the unions and the political parties,” Friday’s statement added.
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