Choucair: Firms must hire more Lebanese

The Daily Star

The new government must come up with a law banning Lebanese businesses from employing more than 10 percent non-nationals in order to reduce unemployment in the country, a leading business figure Tuesday said.

“Following the outbreak of the civil war in Syria and the flow of Syrians to Lebanon, we have seen a lot of Lebanese businesses replacing their employees with Syrian nationals,” Mohammad Choucair, head of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, told The Daily Star, adding that this practice has contributed to the rise in unemployment among youths to 40 percent.

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