Gaza’s Agriculture Ministry staff have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Palestinian Authority (PA) government’s decision to return 40 of the Ministry’s suspended employees to their former workplaces without prior arrangement.
Head of the employees syndicate in the Ministry Mohammed al-Najjar said in an interview with the PIC that the undersecretary of Gaza’s Agriculture Ministry and his counterpart in the Ramallah-based PA government agreed a month ago to return 20 employees whose names were clearly identified.
Najjar affirmed that the Gaza employees were surprised by this unilateral step especially in view of the marginalization and injustice they are exposed to stressing that a state of chaos will prevail in the Ministry if the decision is not reversed.
Undersecretary of the PA Ministry of Agriculture Abdullah Lahlouh said in press statements on Thursday that the PA Minister of Agriculture had issued a decision to return 40 employees who were hired before the 2007 division to their former positions.
